Thalia Book Club
| Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin and Colm Toibin's Brooklyn Thalia Book Club
The Irish writers and good friends discuss their newest novels, each of which is set in New York City and was chosen by Amazon as one of the Top 4 Books of 2009, with each other and the audience. A book signing will follow. While you enjoy the event, have a glass of wine and a light evening meal in the intimate cabaret atmosphere of the Leonard Nimoy Thalia. See More... |
| Rereading Middlemarch with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, and Margot Livesey Thalia Book Club
Novelists Egan (The Keep), Hustvedt (The Sorrows of an American), and Livesey (The House on Fortune Street) return to the Thalia Book Club by popular demand to revisit George Eliot's classic. A discussion with the audience will follow. While you enjoy the event, have a glass of wine and a light evening meal in the intimate cabaret atmosphere of the Leonard Nimoy Thalia. See More... |
| Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration Thalia Book Club
Authors and actors pay tribute to the Pulitzer prize-winning classic novel about racial injustice and loss of innocence in a small Southern town. One of the most taught -- and banned -- books of the last 50 years, the book was voted the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians. The evening will include readings and discussion. See More... |
| Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Thalia Book Club
The author of An Invisible Sign of My Own, whose work has been presented at in several Selected Shorts performances, discusses her second novel, a lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. This heartbreaking tale explores the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. "A writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language" - San Francisco Chronicle See More... |











