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Thalia Book Club
| Readers and writers meet for intimate conversations about compelling new books and favorite classics in fiction, essay, biography and more. Evenings include an actor performing an excerpt, an interview and a conversation with the audience. A book signing follows each event. |
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Claire Messud discusses with Valerie Martin her New York Times Best Book of the Year, a brilliant comedy of manners about the loves and ambitions of three friends making their way—and not—in New York City. Hope Davis reads an excerpt.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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National Book Award-nominated author Edwidge Danticat (Krik? Krak, The Dew Breaker) discusses her deeply personal new memoir with Academy Award–winning filmmaker and friend Jonathan Demme. Danticat tells about weathering the challenges of life in America while still fearing for her family in Haiti, and gives a moving account of her uncle’s death.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks about his celebrated trilogy of novels and the experience of writing the unforgettable character of Frank Bascombe. “Ford’s pitch-perfect voice takes us as close as we can get to experiencing another person's inner life” (Newsweek). David Strathairn reads an excerpt.
Tickets: SOLD OUT!
Showdate(s):
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 @ 7:30 pm
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Legendary cookbook editor Judith Jones, who recently published her memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, and writer Alex Prud’homme, Julia Child’s grandnephew and co-author of her memoir My Life in France, discuss their new books and their lives with the cooking legend. Child’s and Jones’ stories intersect when Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking is accepted by Knopf and assigned to Jones as a young editor.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat) and first-time author Wendy Kann (Casting with a Fragile Thread), discuss their memoirs about growing up in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and revisiting a changed Africa as adults.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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Fellow writers and admirers, including writers Colin Harrison, and Robert MacNeil, discuss the work of the Belgian mystery master, including some of his psychologically realistic and wonderfully atmospheric Inspector Maigret novels set in the cafés and alleys of Paris, the French countryside and Manhattan, among other places. Anna Moschovakis, translator of Georges Simenon\'s novel The Engagement, will also participate in the discussion. Fritz Weaver and will perform excerpts from one of the mysteries.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Renowned biographers James Atlas (Saul Bellow), Edmund Morris (Theodore Roosevelt) and Stacy Schiff (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) reveal the fascinating, all-absorbing process of researching and writing another person’s life story. Part of Upper West Fest.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Journalist Eric Etheridge talks about his book of photographs and interviews, for which he tracked down over seventy of the Freedom Riders who were arrested and served prison time for challenging Mississippi state segregation laws in the spring and summer of 1961. Their original mug shots appear in the book alongside Etheridge's striking contemporary portraits. Three of the Freedom Riders featured in the book will take part.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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