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Event Program
THUR, OCT 24
READING
Peter McNally
DISCUSSION
Louise Erdrich and Judith Thurman
A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUDIENCE
The Mighty Red and additional books by tonight’s authors are available for purchase in the lobby.
There will not be a book signing at this event.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Brian Wiles will no longer be appearing at this event.
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Louise Erdrich is the author of a memoir, three books of poetry, and more than a dozen works of fiction, including the short story collection The Red Convertible and the award-winning novels Love Medicine, The Plague of Doves, The Round House, which won the National Book Award in 2012, LaRose, Future Home of the Living God, The Night Watchman, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2021, and The Sentence. The Mighty Red was published on October 1st.
Louise Erdrich is the author of a memoir, three books of poetry, and more than a dozen works of fiction, including the short story collection The Red Convertible and the award-winning novels Love Medicine, The Plague of Doves, The Round House, which won the National Book Award in 2012, LaRose, Future Home of the Living God, The Night Watchman, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2021, and The Sentence. The Mighty Red was published on October 1st.
Peter McNally’s credits include Sally and Tom by Suzan-Lori Parks at The Public Theater and Sybil Kempson’s Sasquatch Rituals at The Kitchen. On screen he has been featured in India Donaldson’s debut feature film, Good One. McNally received his BA from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and an MFA in Acting at New York University.
Peter McNally’s credits include Sally and Tom by Suzan-Lori Parks at The Public Theater and Sybil Kempson’s Sasquatch Rituals at The Kitchen. On screen he has been featured in India Donaldson’s debut feature film, Good One. McNally received his BA from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and an MFA in Acting at New York University.
Judith Thurman has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1987, and since 2000, as a Staff Writer specializing in profiles and cultural criticism. She is the author of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, which won the 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction and served as the basis for Sydney Pollack's Oscar-winning film Out of Africa. Her second biography, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, won the Los Angeles Times and the Salon Book Awards for Biography. She is also the author of the collections Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire and A Left-Handed Woman. Thurman won the Harold G. Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rungstedlund Prize from the Danish Royal Academy, and Bard College's Mary McCarthy Award for a woman writer's life work. She is also a chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Judith Thurman has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1987, and since 2000, as a Staff Writer specializing in profiles and cultural criticism. She is the author of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, which won the 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction and served as the basis for Sydney Pollack's Oscar-winning film Out of Africa. Her second biography, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, won the Los Angeles Times and the Salon Book Awards for Biography. She is also the author of the collections Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire and A Left-Handed Woman. Thurman won the Harold G. Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rungstedlund Prize from the Danish Royal Academy, and Bard College's Mary McCarthy Award for a woman writer's life work. She is also a chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
The Thalia Book Club is made possible thanks to the generous support of Susan Bay Nimoy, Seedlings Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Charina Endowment Fund, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, PECO Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina, Michael Tuch Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation, The Grodzins Fund, and The Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America.
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.
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