We’re very happy to have Emmy-award winning screenwriter, author, and Castine resident Jeff Lewis back for a reading of his newest book, Land of Cockaigne.

A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty, Land of Cockaigne is by turns furious, funny, subversive, tragic, and horrifying. The Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants’ vision of a sensual paradise on earth, is reimagined as a plot on the coast of Maine, where the novel’s protagonist, Walter Rath is faced with the question of what to do amid disastrous times.