$35 — All proceeds benefit the Local Journalism Project

Featuring Tessera C. Knowles, Ed Miller, Adam Moss, Daniel Okrent, and Andrew Sullivan in conversation.

Journalism informs. It investigates. It holds the powerful accountable. But can it also be art? Adam Moss makes that case in his new book, The Work of Art, featuring visual artists, novelists, poets, musicians, and journalists like Gay Talese, Ira Glass, and the front-page editors of the New York Times. Join Moss and Provincetown Independent editor Ed Miller, along with journalist and historian Dan Okrent, journalist and podcaster Andrew Sullivan, and journalist and artist Tessera C. Knowles, to discuss the creative side of journalism — as it is practiced now, as it has flourished historically, and as it takes ever-new forms on the way to an indefinite future.

This event benefits the Local Journalism Project — the nonprofit organization that supports next-generation journalists at the Provincetown Independent.

Daniel Okrent is the author most recently of The Guarded Gate; he also invented Rotisserie League Baseball and was the first public editor of the New York Times. Andrew Sullivan, who writes The Weekly Dish, is the author of The Conservative Soul and was the editor of The New Republic. Ed Miller has worked as a writer, editor, and book publisher; he is co-author of How to Produce a Small Newspaper. Tess Knowles, an artist and garden designer, was a reporter at the Provincetown Independent. Adam Moss was the editor of New York, the New York Times Magazine, and 7 Days.

From Howard Karren’s review of The Work of Art in the Independent:
“In 2019, when Adam Moss left his powerful perch as top editor of New York magazine after 15 years, he decided to devote himself to painting. It didn’t go well. He was obsessed and tormented with his progress as an artist, and the harder he worked, the more frustrated and unsatisfied he became. To lift himself out of that quagmire, he embarked on a project that would employ his skills as a journalist: he would talk to artists of all stripes and genres and explore how they did what they did so well. The result is a book, The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing, which was published by Penguin Press in April. It is, in itself, a splendiferous piece of work, filled with thoughtful analysis, joyful and humorous stories, and hundreds of images and doodles and footnotes. The collection of artists’ voices is impressive, even dazzling.”