Book reading and signing celebrating art-science (and quantum science specifically), with special guests. The epistolary novel “Two Revolutions: Einstein’s Relativity and Quantum Physics” by Smitha Vishveshwara and C.V. Vishveshwara is a series of reflections, transcripts, imagined vignettes, and letters written between two renowned physicists, a father in India, a daughter in Urbana, Illinois. The two cherish the opportunity to muse and ponder playfully together while sharing a deep dive into each of their areas of expertise, two of the greatest revolutions in our comprehension of the universe. Sadly, C.V. Vishveshwara passed away before the book was completed, and Smitha Vishveshwara finished the novel guided by “that sunlit, mirthful, profound spirit” with which he lived life.

Richard Blanco’s Homeland of My Body is a collection of over 100 new and previously published poems selected by the author to represent his evolution as a writer grappling with his identity, working to find and define “home.” Blanco reexamines his lifelong quest to find his proverbial home and all that it encompasses: love, family, identity, and ultimately, art itself. In the closing section of the volume, he has come to understand and internalize the idea that “home” is not one place, not one thing, and lives both inside him and inside his art.