The Jack Burstyn Memorial Lecture

Dr. Alan Manevitz - October 17, 2011

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue 

Dr. Alan Manevitz is a practicing clinical psychiatrist, a clinical associate professor at Payne Whitney-Weill Cornell Medical Center, and attending psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian and Lenox Hill hospitals. He has been named amongst the Top Doctors in America by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., New York Time’s Super Doctors, New York Magazine’s Best Doctors, and Best Doctors of America. Dr. Manevitz has developed a reputation for consultation of difficult –to- diagnose patients and is a pioneer in a revolutionary new treatment for hitherto recalcitrant depressions.

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An Evening with John Simon
October 27, 2011

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

John Simon is a long time literary and theater critic, as well as a successful author. A Harvard graduate, John was the theater and film critic at New York magazine for 36 years, and later worked as a theater reviewer for Bloomberg News. John’s review compilations include Uneasy Stages, John Simon on Theater, John Simon on Music, and John Simon on Film. He has also written several books on film and poetry including Private Screenings.

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The Humor of Sholem Aleichem

Bel Kaufman - November 1, 2011

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue 

Bel Kaufman, the granddaughter of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, is the author of the classic Up The Down Staircase. She is also a proud alumna of Hunter College.

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Conner Guest Writer

Francine Prose - November 14, 2011 

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue 

Francine Prose has written over twenty books, of which, Blue Angel, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted into a film, and another, The Glorious Ones, was made into a musical performed at New York’s Lincoln Center.  Francine is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has worked as a contributor of articles and periodicals, including Mademoiselle, The New York Times Magazine, and Village Voice.

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Talented Young Writers Panel - November 21, 2011

Hear today's hottest, young writers successes discuss their debut novels, their literary journey, and the writing process. A question and answer session plus book-signing and reception will follow each lecture.

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue 

Stefan Merrill Block is the author of The Story of Forgetting, which won Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers’ League of Texas. The Story of Forgetting was also a finalist for the debut fiction awards from IndieBound, Salon du Livre and The Center for Fiction. His second novel, The Storm at the Door, was just released.

Alison Espach is the author of The Adults, her debut novel, which received great praise from The New York Times Book Review. Alison received her MFA in Fiction from Washington University in St. Louis, where she taught creative writing. Her short fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Five Chapters, Del Sol Review, and Sentence. 

Haley Tanner is the author of Vaclav & Lena, a love story about two adolescent Russian immigrants in Brighton Beach and the journey their romance takes on the beachfront in Brooklyn.  

Benjamin Hale is the author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, for which he won a Michener-Copernicus Award, as well as praise from The New York Times Book Review, which called the novel “an absolute pleasure.”  Benjamin has worked as a night shift baker, a trompe l’oeil painter, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer, before becoming published.  

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Tina Santi Flaherty Irish Voices Literary Series

Hear well-known Irish personalities talk about their approaches to writing, how Irish heritage has played a role in their lives, and learn the secrets of their success. A question and answer session plus book-signing and reception will follow each lecture.

Pete Hamill - September 22, 2011

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Pete Hamill is a renowned journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. He is a “Distinguished Writer in Residence” at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, and in 2011, he was the recipient of the A.J. Liebling Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Barbara Leaming - October 24, 2011

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Barbara Leaming is the author of two New York Times bestselling biographies and three New York Times “Notable Books of the Year.” Her most recent book, Churchill Defiant, a story about Winston Churchill, details the last ten years of his public life. She was also the first to write extensively about the extraordinary influence of Winston Churchill on President Kennedy's intellectual formation and political strategies, on which she will be speaking. Her articles have appeared in many publications in the United States and Europe, including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the Times of London.

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Dan Barry - November 15, 2011

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue
 
Dan Barry has been writing the “About New York” column for The New York Times since June 2003. Mr. Barry joined The Times in September 1995, and has served as the newspaper’s city hall bureau chief, Long Island bureau chief, acting police bureau chief and general assignment reporter for the Metropolitan Desk. Over the years he has written extensively for The Times about city politics, police brutality, and he was a major contributor to the newspaper’s award-winning coverage of the World Trade Center disaster and its aftermath.

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Iris Cornelia Love - December 5, 2011

7:00pm, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Iris Cornelia Love is the archeologist who discovered the long lost Temple of Aphrodite off the coast of Turkey. Aside from directing other archaeological digs throughout Greece and Italy,  Love also possesses a wealth of knowledge, from her passion for dog breeding to her Humanity Award for her archeological discoveries, which she shares by serving as editor-at-large for Architectural Digest and Parade Magazine.

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