Mar 27 | Einstein in Kafkaland: Virtual JBC Author Talk by New Yorker Cartoonist and Biographer Ken Krimstein

Falmouth Jewish Congregation invites everyone to a free, virtual Jewish Book Council author talk by award-winning cartoonist and author Kenneth Krimstein on Thursday, March 27 at 7pm on Zoom. From your own home, you will hear Krimstein will present on his latest book, Einstein in Kafkaland. These author talks include a Q & A, so you can engage by posting questions to the author. Register in advance for this Zoom event at www.falmouthjewish.org, where you will find the complete author talk series schedule. Local independent bookshop Eight Cousins Books in Falmouth is handling book sales. Contact them directly to place an order.

Award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Kenneth Krimstein’s latest creation is Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe, a graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became “Einstein,” Franz Kafka became “Kafka,” and the world changed forever. During the year 1911-1912, when Prague was home to both Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka, the trajectory of the two men’s lives wove together in uncanny ways-as did their shared desire to tackle the world’s biggest questions in Europe’s strangest city. In stunning words and pictures, Einstein in Kafkaland reveals the untold story of how their worlds wove together in a cosmic battle for new kinds of truth. Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus declared Einstein in Kafkaland to be “clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet-and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka. A page turner on gravity and relativity!” So take an hour to expand your horizons and enjoy a speaker with a reputation as a highly engaging presenter.

Ken Krim­stein has pub­lished car­toons in The New York­er and The Wall Street Jour­nal. His other works include The Three Escapes of Han­nah Arendt (winner of the Bernard J. Brom­mel Award and a final­ist for the Jew­ish Book Award) and When I Grow Up (named a Best Book of the Year by NPR).