“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.
Much of the talk is about celebrity and how it undermines the humanity of the writer, the gap between the writer’s persona and his reality, and the emptiness of pop culture, which Wallace also loves.
The artists and young professionals who inhabit large slices of contemporary, gentrifying Brooklyn don’t appear here. Rather what’s portrayed is an older version of that borough -- one built on elements of the great On the Waterfront.
