Events - January, 23, 2013

Junot Diaz & Karen Russell

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the author of Swamplandia present stories from their brand new collections.

Books

On Biography: D. T. Max's David Foster Wallace

Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest was included in Time’s list of the top 100 novels since 1923, and his genre-busting nonfiction earned following from writers and readers alike. D.T....

History/NYC

India Ink: Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe

With Larry Silver, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania.

Books

Bernard Schwartz Book Award Luncheon: Brahma Chellaney

Water: Asia’s New Battleground, by Brahma Chellaney, was named winner of the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for its outstanding contribution to advancing...

Food & Drink

The Country Cooking of Greece

With Diane Kochilas, consulting chef at four restaurants, food columnist for Greece's largest newspaper, and co-founder of the Glorious Greek Cooking School on the Greek...

Performing Arts/Film

On Lyle Talbot

Margaret Talbot looks at the sweeping history of American entertainment as seen through the life of her father, actor Lyle Talbot. See film highlights from...

Books

Open Source: A Guide to Free Culture with Electric Literature, Man Bartlett, and Maria Popova

Join a panel of experts in free culture for a frank discussion on the future of art and how to survive when you’re giving it...

Books

John Kenney & Jami Attenberg

Brooklyn author John Kenney mines his own advertising background to weave spot-on insider details into his debut novel Truth in Advertising, a wickedly funny send-up of the absurdities...

Religion/Spirituality

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief

Join Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and New Yorker editor Daniel Zalewski for a conversation on Wright's latest work: Going Clear, a revelatory book about the...

Books

Ben Michaelis

Author of Your Next Big Thing: 10 Small Steps to Get Moving and Get Happy.

Books

Bad Trips with Jerry Stahl, LZ Hansen, Sophia Langdon, and Nathan Larson

Jerry Stahl, author of Bad Sex on Speed and editor of The Heroin Chronicles, will be joined by his fellow Chroniclescontributors LZ Hansen, Sophia Langdon, and Nathan Larson (The...

Performing Arts/Film

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2

Batman must battle both old friends and foes in the epic conclusion to Frank Miller’s comic masterpiece in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2, the...

Books

Terry Francona: The Red Sox Years

Art/Photo/Design

Adam McEwen and Donna De Salvo on Sinister Pop

Adam McEwen, whose work includes obituaries for living celebrities like Bill Clinton and Kate Moss, investigates and critiques the territory between history, fiction, and popular...

Books

Book Launch: Best of Youth by Michael Dahlie

PEN/Hemingway winner Michael Dahlie celebrates his latest. A must-read for any disaffected twenty-something Brooklynite who’s ever fantasized about coming into a lot of money or starting a...