Past Events
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Hermione Lee won international acclaim and awards for her biographies of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, and her Edith Wharton (2007) is considered the definitive modern biography of one of America's most famous women of letters.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic women, Queen Elizabeth II.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
A child finally falls asleep with the rest of the world in this new picture book from Kate and Jules Feiffer. In this event the Feiffers talk about how they worked together to create the book and engage attendees in creating their own story.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
In this session we'll take the first chapter of Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone, read it aloud one sentence or paragraph at a time, and hold each part up to the light. Close reading is a slow, surprisingly exciting process.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The 2011 film The Conspirator tells the saga of Confederate widow Mary Surratt, tried for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth and others to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Although the Lincoln murder is widely taught, few know the full story.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room
Yasmina Reza's Art premiered in Paris in 1995 and won the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has had productions worldwide in over thirty languages.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
Sarah Pinneo is the author of the popular blog Blurb is a Verb!, in which she shares true (and sometimes terrible) stories of book publicity gone right (and wrong).
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In this event, acclaimed novelist Ellen Feldman and celebrated historian Richard Snow discuss the struggles and rewards of writing about World War II.
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Friday, January 27, 2012 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
At first glance, Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano don’t seem to have much in common. When these three unique kids are brought together at the national Youth Scrabble Tournament, their paths cross and stories intertwine.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Martin Lemelman's elegiac and bittersweet graphic memoir Two Cents Plain collects the memories and artifacts of the author's childhood in Brooklyn.
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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room
A talented cast perform Cathy Tempelsman's new play, showing the little-known scandalous life of English novelist George Eliot, directed by Richard Maltby Jr.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who traveled to Russia
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 6:30 PM | The Writing Life | Members' Room | Open to the PublicAdam Kirsch hosts an evening of refreshments, conversation, visual presentations, and readings featuring writers from the literary magazines Triple Canopy and The Paris Review.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Members' Room
In this primer on digital self publishing, we'll walk through the process of selecting and working with a firm to format and design your e-book and getting your e-book listed for sale on online outlets like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Google B
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
Are your notes and references in hopeless disarray? Are you constantly looking for the right literal and digital file folder?
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room
In A Tale Dark and Grimm, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Parnassus founder and editor Herbert Leibowitz provides a new perspective on the life and poetry of the doctor poet William Carlos Williams, a key American writer who led one of the more eventful literary lives of the twentieth century.&n
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Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
In this afternoon of song and story, contemporary Swedish opera star Madeleine Kristoffersson and actor John Ray recreate the music and the drama of Jenny Lind's landmark American tour under the management of P.T. Barnum.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Historian Amanda Foreman follows her bestseller Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire with the fascinating story of the American Civil War and the major role played by Britain and its citizens in that epic struggle.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Maisie Houghton describes her struggle to find her own voice as the middle child in an accomplished but contradictory family in 1950s Cambridge and New York.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Author Diana Altman, daughter of the MGM talent scout who discovered James Stewart, Joan Crawford, and others, presents historic screen tests and discussion of the era when Hollywood was the film industry's pretty face and New York its heart and l
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
Thoughtful, constructive critiques help writers improve their work. Inappropriate attacks or comments based on personal preference do not.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Author Katherine Leiner and photographer Andrew Lipton introduce a new revolution in food involving people living sustainable lives centered on healthy, natural food.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The author and principal founder of the Central Park Conservancy brings together a diverse array of gardeners' words about the art of gardening.
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