Events - November, 3, 2012

Children's Literary Salon: Independent Publishing in an Age of Mass Marketing

While huge companies like Scholastic, Macmillan, Harper Collins, etc. may have seemingly unlimited funds to promote their materials, smaller independent publishers have found niche areas...

Food & Drink, History/NYC

Eat the City with Robin Shulman and Jacob Ruppert

Discuss the incredible history of beer in New York City with K. Jacob Ruppert, a scion of the brewing family that owned the New York...

History/NYC

The Coming of World War II

Hear a gripping account by John Maurer of the decisions that led to war and grapple with the changing strategic environment between the summer of...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

The Ocean Floaters

Thought Gallery members receive $6 off tickets when purchasing at this link. An excursion through family heritage with script, music and songs by Peter Dizozza,...

Erin Flynn Jay - Mastering the Mommy Track: Juggling Career and Kids in Uncertain Times

Many working mothers today face great tension between their families and careers. Mastering the Mommy Track tells the stories of everyday working mothers, the challenges...

Books

Gotham: Writers in the City: Martin Amis

British novelist Martin Amis (Time's Arrow, The Pregnant Widow) discusses his recent novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England with WNYC's Leonard Lopate.

Performing Arts/Film

Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal

Sharing entries from Jim Henson's journal and showing related film and television clips highlighting his career, The Jim Henson Company Archivist, Karen Falk, presents Imagination Illustrated:...

Film

Beasts of the Southern Wild with Quvenzhané Wallis and Benh Zeitlin in person

With Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly. At the center of this raw and lyrical movie about a Louisiana island community on the brink of...