The New York Public Library has three events coming up in our fall 2016 series of Conversation from the Cullman Center, and they all take place in October at the NYPL on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

 

As usual our events are free, but we ask that people reserve seats to guarantee seating.

 

1. Our first event is on Thursday, October 6th at 7 p.m. with Former Fellows STEVE PINCUS and KEITH GESSEN. They will be talking about Pincus’s new book, The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders’ Case for an Activist Government, which argues that the politically radioactive concerns of 2016 – immigration, income inequality, economic stimulus, austerity, the national debt, government size, trade – were precisely those that concerned the Founders 240 years ago.

 

Please click HERE[eventbrite.com] to find out more and reserve your seats for the October 6th event.

 

2. Our second event is on Thursday, October 13th at 7 p.m. with Former Fellow RUTH FRANKLIN and New Yorker editor Dorothy Wickenden. They will be discussing Franklin’s biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life.  Drawing on previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of interviews, Franklin explores Jackson’s immense talent in light of her damaged childhood and troubled marriage.

 

Please click HERE[eventbrite.com] to find out more and reserve your seats for the October 13th event.

 

3. Our third event is on Thursday, October 27th at 7 p.m. with Former Fellows YASMINE EL RASHIDI and ROBYN CRESWELL. They will discuss her novel, Chronicle of a Last Summer,which is told in the voice of a girl growing up in Cairo over the course of three tumultuous summers from 1984 to 2014.

 

Please click HERE[eventbrite.com] to find out more and reserve your seats for the October 27th event.

 

 

Julia Pagnamenta

Staff Associate

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman

Center for Scholars and Writers

The New York Public Library

Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Room 225

New York, NY 10018-2788

tel: (212)-930-0897  fax: (212) 930-0040