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Inventing the Future of Fashion: Loving our Clothes While Loving the Earth, with Tiffanie Darke (September 5)
Tiffanie Darke, author of the new What to Wear and Why: Your Guilt-Free Guide to Sustainable Fashion, talks fashion and sustainability with historian and curator Elizabeth Way and sustainable brand founder Vanessa Barboni Hallik.
Katherine Bucknell, Christopher Isherwood Inside Out, with Edward Mendelson (September 9)
Biographer Katherine Bucknell presents a stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity, in conversation with W.H. Auden biographer Edward Mendelson.
Joseph Kanon, Shanghai: A Novel (September 12)
In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting yet: pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business. A love affair against all odds, a city dancing on the rim of a volcano—Shanghai is the story of a political haven that becomes a minefield of conflicting loyalties.
Robin Bernstein, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit, with Nicole R. Fleetwood (September 19)
An award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit, in conversation with National Book Critics Circle Award winner Nicole R. Fleetwood.
War and Imagination: Perspectives from the Hudson Review (October 15)
Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives. In this event, book contributors Cary Holladay, Marilyn Nelson, Lara Prescott, and Brooke Allen discuss ways in which experiences of war are unique, yet with aspects of the universal present in each.
PUMPKIN HEAD: A Special Halloween Performance by Bill Connington, with Joyce Carol Oates (October 27)
Pumpkin Head appeared in the New Yorker magazine in 2009. A recent widow encounters a male visitor who both intrigues and repels her. She struggles with establishing her own identity after the loss of her husband. In this special spooky season event, Bill Connington presents Pumpkin Head and converses with its author, Joyce Carol Oates.
Panel: New York State of Crime: Murder New York Style, with Sisters in Crime (November 14)
New York State Of Crime takes you on a roller-coaster ride of everything you ever imagined about New York. From the City That Never Sleeps to the farthest reaches of the Adirondack Mountains, criminals ply their dirty tricks, and intrepid New Yorkers—well, you know how we are—fight back. With high-octane stories from twenty authors, it’s the deadly side of the Empire State that tour guides never tell you about. Join the Library and Sisters in Crime for a free panel discussion moderated by S.J. Rozan, author of The Mayors of New York.
Dr. Julius Garvey, Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind, with Diane Richards (November 20)
Justice for Marcus Garvey is a tribute and rallying cry for one of the preeminent champions of Black pride and self-determination. In this one-of-a-kind event, Garvey's son Dr. Julius Garvey, editor of this new book, converses about Garvey's life and legacy with Diane Richards of the Harlem Writers Guild.
Susan Minot, Don't Be a Stranger, and Andrea di Robilant, This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World (November 26)
Susan Minot's new novel tells the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life, a luminous tale about erotic obsession and the hunger for intimacy, communication, and oblivion. Andrea di Robilant'sThis Earthly Globe tells the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography. These authors and friends discuss their books and the writing life, in conversation with poet and editor Deborah Garrison.
Jean Strouse, Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, with Stacy Schiff (December 9)
Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. In this unique event, she converses with award-winning biographer Stacy Schiff.
