Founded by Jennifer Carson, To the Lighthouse is a West Coast organization offering professional book group facilitation, book signings, conversations with authors and retreats for both writers and readers. We’re building a community to support and encourage each other’s love of literature. Join us!
Book Clubs
Jennifer leads book clubs in stimulating, engaged, and elevated discussions of current literary fiction.
To the Lighthouse also has two open book groups: one literary fiction group, and one focused on climate and environmental readings.
Author Events
Wednesday evening, December 1, at 7pm | $10
Miranda Cowley Heller, author of the NYT bestseller The Paper Palace in conversation with Mark Sarvas, award-winning author of Memento Park
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Literary Retreats
Planned for 2022! The coronavirus pandemic has delayed our plans to launch in-person retreats for readers and writers, but we hope to offer the first one in 2022, in a beautiful and peaceful retreat setting on the Monterey Bay in California.
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Jennifer is a thoughtful, analytical and brilliant moderator. Just the right mix of college professor meets your best girlfriend! – P.E.
Jennifer has been our Book Club facilitator for two years. She is undoubtedly the best facilitator we have had. She is warm and comfortable. But best of all she “guides” The Club....does not lecture. She is open and flexible and knows how to get the best out of us and the book. –S.R.
Nota Bene
Nota Bene (verb) – to observe carefully or take special notice (used in written text to draw attention to what follows). What follows is a collection of reflections, evaluations, praise, criticism, enthusiasms, complaints, questions, and miscellany related to literature and the writing life. If you’d like to contribute a post, please get in touch!
About Jennifer
Literary critic, author, book club facilitator, artist, scientist, teacher – Jennifer’s criticism has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Science. She's a member of the National Book Critics Circle. Her essays have appeared in Six Hens Journal, Barnes & Noble Review, and the forthcoming WAVES: A Confluence of Women's Voices.
“Creative adaptability is the key to successful conservation.”
Alma Peterson | Co-Founder
