Events - August, 16, 2012

Maria Semple - Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis - Alice Kaplan

Jacqueline Bouvier was a 20-year-old debutante from a wealthy East Coast family; Susan Sontag a precocious Jewish intellectual from North Hollywood; Angela Davis a French...

Books

Matthew Battles with Joanne McNeil

The creaky, creepy shapes of the Baroque era collide with the sleekly insidious forms of the 21st century techno-landscape in The Sovereignties of Invention, rare book...

Books

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, and How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

This visual presentation delves behind the scenes to the research that led to Leah Price's, professor of English at Harvard University new books. Unpacking My Library uses interviews and...

Books

Christopher Irving & Seth Kushner

Some are mild mannered geeks, others mad geniuses or street-smart city dwellers driven to action. These are the men and women behind the masks and...

Performing Arts/Film

From Homicide to Copper: Fontana/Levinson in Conversation

With special guest: Richard Belzer. Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana have one of the most creative and fruitful partnerships in the industry. Their groundbreaking collective vision has been responsible for...

Books, Religion/Spirituality, Art/Photo/Design