Events - April, 29, 2013

Richard Ford and James Salter

Richard Ford’s new novel is Canada. It is “a superlatively good book, richly imagined and beautifully fashioned,” wrote John Banville. “One is tempted to acclaim it...

Legal/Politics/Economics

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

Lynn Povich, award-winning journalist and the first female senior editor at Newsweek magazine, recounts her involvement, with forty-six of her female colleagues, in a class action...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Barbara Ehrenreich

The essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich specializes in turning received wisdom on its head. This evening, she turns her gimlet eye on the most...

Books

Mapping Manhattan: A Love (And Sometimes a Hate) Story

Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, Becky Cooper walked Manhattan from end to end. Along her journey she asked...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Jerry Stiller & Fred Stoller

Laugh uproariously for an hour as actor/writer Fred Stoller shares many a story from his touchingly funny memoir, Maybe We’ll Have You Back: The Life of...

Science/Tech/Health,

Google's Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen

Never before have so many people, from so many places, had so much power, via the world’s largest ungoverned space, the Internet. Hear Eric Schmidt, executive...

Food & Drink

Why We Eat What We Eat: Stuart Firestein & Priscilla Ferguson

Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, Ph.D. and sociologist Priscilla Ferguson, Ph.D. converse about what our food choices can tell us about the brain and society.

Books

Shame and Love, Secrets and Families

Deborah Cohen, a former Cullman Center fellow and the author of the newly-published Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain, talks with Andrew Solomon about shame and...

Books

Maddie on Things

The only thing cuter than Maddie, or more distracting at work, is Maddie on Things. Photographer Theron Humphrey drops by, Maddie in tow, to talk about his...