Underjungle Book Launch

Salmagundi Club Library

Deep below the surface, our world is cold, dark, and content. Colors are fickle. Red disappears first as you descend, followed by the yellow of the sun. The hundred shades of blue last the longest, but eventually there is only black―and the candied ooze of the ocean floor. Where the pressure is constant, it clings to you as an embrace. We are more comfortable there, in our sheath. But sometimes we’ll approach the surface to see the spectacle of lightning strike, and it’s a dangerous kind of ecstasy. From the right distance, you feel the water tingle. Closer up, you see and hear the zooplankton fry.

Please RSVP for the Underjungle Book Launch on Tuesday, August 8, 2023, sponsored by the Half King Reading Series, at the historic Salmagundi Club in New York.

Salmagundi Club Picture Gallery