Events - April, 8, 2013

Poetry at 100: An Anniversary Reading

With Frank Bidart, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mary Karr, Marie Ponsot, Don Share, Atsuro Riley, Christian Wiman and Charles Wright. Poetry magazine celebrates its centenary in 2012....

History/NYC, Film

Defiance the Movie

Join Ziv Bielski, and Sally Frishberg for the showing of the movie "DEFIANCE" starring Daniel Craig (James Bond) and Liev Schreiber, written and directed by Edward Zwick. Defiance...

Books

Nathaniel Rich

Worst Case Scenario: an evening with Nathaniel Rich and friends who together will explore their fears and trepidations for the future of humanity. Nathaniel Rich’s new...

Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything

This amusing and engaging illustrated lecture, that delivers answers to life's most challenging dilemmas—timeless and contemporary alike, challenges the audience to think about how they...

Science/Tech/Health

The Core of the Moon with Ben Weiss

A key unknown in lunar science is to what extent the Moon is a melted, radially layered planet like Earth or a primordial unmelted relic...

Books

The Life of Objects with Susanna Moore

Susanna Moore reads from her novel The Life of Objects, a haunting tale about the experience of a teenage girl, an Irish Protestant lace maker, who...

Science/Tech/Health

Marine Seismic Imaging and the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Off the Pacific Northwest coast, the 680-mile-long Cascadia subduction zone has produced giant earthquakes and tsunamis similar to the one that ravaged Japan last year....

Books

Constance Rosenblum - Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City

Habitats offers 40 vivid and intimate stories about how New Yorkers really live in their brownstones, their apartments, their mansions, their lofts, and as a...