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Event Program
MON, JUN 08
READING
Josh Hamilton
DISCUSSION
Dave Eggers and John Hodgman
A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUDIENCE
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books for adults and kids. He’s the founder of McSweeney's and the co-founder of 826 Valencia, and the International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers. A finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, he was recently awarded the Newbery Medal for his all-ages book, The Eyes and the Impossible. Contrapposto will be published on June 9th.
Dave Eggers is the author of many books for adults and kids. He’s the founder of McSweeney's and the co-founder of 826 Valencia, and the International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers. A finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, he was recently awarded the Newbery Medal for his all-ages book, The Eyes and the Impossible. Contrapposto will be published on June 9th.

Josh Hamilton just completed a sold-out run of Wallace Shawn’s What We Did Before Our Moth Days directed by Andre Gregory. Additional theater credits include Shawn’s Evening at the Talkhouse at the National Theater in London; Annie Baker’s The Antipodes; Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and The Real Thing; Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, The Waverley Gallery, and Medieval Play; The Bridge Project; Scene Partners; The New Group’s Hurlyburly, Lie of the Mind and Things We Want; and Classic Stage Company's Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. His recent screen credits include Jay Kelly, Maestro, Reality, Eighth Grade, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, The Long Walk, The Last Thing He Told Me, The Walking Dead, and 13 Reasons Why. Hamilton can next be seen in The Five-Star Weekend on Peacock in July.
Josh Hamilton just completed a sold-out run of Wallace Shawn’s What We Did Before Our Moth Days directed by Andre Gregory. Additional theater credits include Shawn’s Evening at the Talkhouse at the National Theater in London; Annie Baker’s The Antipodes; Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and The Real Thing; Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, The Waverley Gallery, and Medieval Play; The Bridge Project; Scene Partners; The New Group’s Hurlyburly, Lie of the Mind and Things We Want; and Classic Stage Company's Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. His recent screen credits include Jay Kelly, Maestro, Reality, Eighth Grade, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, The Long Walk, The Last Thing He Told Me, The Walking Dead, and 13 Reasons Why. Hamilton can next be seen in The Five-Star Weekend on Peacock in July.

John Hodgman is a bestselling writer, humorist, and actor who first honed his comedic voice in the pages of McSweeney’s and as the host of some of their earliest events. His books include Vacationland, Medallion Status, and The Areas of My Expertise, and other work has appeared in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review, and The New York Times Magazine, where he writes the weekly “Judge John Hodgman” column for The Ethicist. He is also the host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast. He is the co-creator and co-star of the animated comedy Dicktown on Hulu, and recently starred as Tom, The Weird Dad on Up Here, also on Hulu, and Guy Wearing Dockers at the Concert Who Is Not a Narc on Poker Face for Peacock. Hodgman voices the characters of Mouse on Frog and Toad, Snoopy on The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, and Gary on Archer.
John Hodgman is a bestselling writer, humorist, and actor who first honed his comedic voice in the pages of McSweeney’s and as the host of some of their earliest events. His books include Vacationland, Medallion Status, and The Areas of My Expertise, and other work has appeared in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review, and The New York Times Magazine, where he writes the weekly “Judge John Hodgman” column for The Ethicist. He is also the host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast. He is the co-creator and co-star of the animated comedy Dicktown on Hulu, and recently starred as Tom, The Weird Dad on Up Here, also on Hulu, and Guy Wearing Dockers at the Concert Who Is Not a Narc on Poker Face for Peacock. Hodgman voices the characters of Mouse on Frog and Toad, Snoopy on The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, and Gary on Archer.
The Thalia Book Club is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Seedlings Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Charina Endowment Fund, Charles D. Fleischman Charitable Trust, Susan Bay Nimoy, The Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America, PECO Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation, The Grodzins Fund, and the Seedtime Fund.
This program is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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