The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom, says author Antonia Malchik, introducing her book A Walking Life: Reclaiming our Health and Freedom, One Step at a Time. For author and activist, Jonathon Stalls, walking is a radical necessity, a nourishing practice to wake us up and “to begin healing our culture’s profound separation from the natural world.” His recent book, Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles per Hour, blends storytelling with practical exercises in a moving manifesto for reclaiming pedestrian dignity. Join both authors in conversation with Walking America host Ann de Forest to talk about themes of vulnerability, human dignity, presence, mystery, and resistance, and examine exactly how walking is essential, how deeply reliant our brains and bodies are on this simple pedestrian act — and how we can reclaim it.
Walking America is a quarterly series of conversations that brings together American writers whose books share common themes. Ann de Forest, writer and editor of the anthology Ways of Walking(New Door Books, 2022), hosts and moderates the lively exchange, which touches on, among other topics, walking as a mode of research, walking as creative act, the challenges of writing about walking, as well as of walking to write. Audience questions and participation are encouraged!
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Like most people on this planet, I have been walking my entire life. Having grown up in Los Angeles, I’ve also logged plenty of time in automobiles, but I’ve been in fortunate to live most of my adult life in a famously “walkable city,” Philadelphia, where my feet have become my preferred routine means of getting around, for both utility and pleasure.
Walking America – writers in conversation with Ann de Forest, Jonathon Stalls and Antonia Malchik
The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom, says author Antonia Malchik, introducing her book A Walking Life: Reclaiming our Health and Freedom, One Step at a Time. For author and activist, Jonathon Stalls, walking is a radical necessity, a