Chekhov's Mistress
Reading Railroad: More Fall Events
New York Public Library – topics or speakers include: Hitchens, Angelou; Shakespeare, Proust, Greene, Singer, Hempel, and many others
In case you couldn’t get tickets to any events at the New Yorker Festival, the consolation prize is not so bad.
The New York Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library offers low price or free events to the public throughout the season.
Tuesday, September 21, 5:30 PM
Hons and Rebels Revisited: The Life of Jessica Mitford
Christopher Hitchens & Maya Angelou
Wednesday, September 29, 6:30 PM
Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare: A Portrait of the Artist in his World
Wednesday, October 6, 6:30 PM
Doublethink & Doubletalk: The Art and Politics of Language
Wednesday, October 13, 6:30 PM
A Sort Of Life: Graham Greene at 100
Pico Iyer, James Wood, Laura Miller
Tuesday, October 26, 4:00 PM
Lost In Translation? Isaac Bashevis Singer Between Poland and America, Jews and Gentiles
Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 6:00 PM
Maureen Howard and Rick Moody: Appropriating the Literary Past
Wednesday, November 3, 6:30 PM
The Proust Project: A Discussion With Latter-Day Disciples, Admirers and Shameless Imitators, With Readings of Proust by Selected Actors
Louis Begley, Wayne Koestenbaum – Professor of English at CUNY, Andrew Solomon, Judith Thurman, Colm Tóibín, André Aciman
Tuesday, November 9, 6:30 PM
When Candy Was Banned: How The Olympia Press Thwarted Literary Censorship
Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 6:00 PM
Sheila Kohler and Amy Hempel
Facts and Fiction
In addition to these, the 92nd St Y has many events too. See my previous post.
Read widely, think well, and write often.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: September 15, 2004
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