One Book, One Pass selection announced

Special to The Pass Post

Sebastian Junger

Events begin this fall for the annual community reading project, One Book, One Pass. The 2026 selected author is award-winning war correspondent Sebastian Junger and the book selection is In My Time Of Dying:  How I Came Face to Face With The Idea of an Afterlife.

Over the next several months, the community is encouraged to read the book and engage in book discussions, panel discussions, and other programs that will culminate in the Author Presentation by Junger on Thursday, November 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Randolph Center in Pass Christian.

Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, Tribe, Freedom and this year’s selected book, In My Time of Dying.  As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award.  Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film, Restrepo, was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

In the One Book One Pass selection, In My Time of Dying, a near-fatal health emergency leads to a powerful reflection on death-and what might follow.  The book is part medical drama, part searing autobiography and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.

Copies of In My Time of Dying are available for check out at the Pass Christian Library or for purchase at Pass Christian Books.

Residents can also follow the “One Book One Pass” program on Facebook.

The Randolph Center is located at 315 Clark Avenue. For more information, call the Pass Christian library at 228-452-4596.