LITERATURE
 | Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents her newest novel Americanah, a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home.
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 | Selected Shorts: Romance & Other Disasters with Simon Rich and Patricia Marx
Frequent New Yorker contributors and former Saturday Night Live writers join forces for an evening of off the wall, side-splitting tales of infatuation, heartbreak, cave-painting and political protests read by Michael Ian Black (The State, Stella), Anna Chlumsky (Veep), Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds) and Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Featuring stories by Marx and from Rich's new collection The Last Girlfriend on Earth and Other Stories, which includes the hilarious story "Unprotected," performed at Selected Shorts by Wyatt Cenac earlier this season. Hosted by BD Wong. The authors will be interviewd by Matthew Love.
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 | Thalia Book Club: Colum McCann TransAtlantic
National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCann talks with John Wray (Lowboy) about his spellbinding new novel (to be released June 4), a gripping historical fiction spanning 150 years, from 1845 to the present, and weaving the tales of four generations of women with moments in the lives of Frederick Douglass, early British aviators Jack Alcock and Teddy Brown, and former senator George Mitchell. |
Selected Shorts on Tour: BU Theatre, Boston
Springtime, Sex & Baseball: At this live taping, actors Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, The Office), Denis O'Hare (True Blood, American Horror Story) and Kate Burton (Scandal, The Cherry Orchard at the Huntington) perform powerful, surprising, romantic, and funny stories by comic master Dorothy Parker, baseball writer W.P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe) , and quirky contemporary humorists Aimee Bender and N.M. Kelby. Huntington Theatre Company |
 | Selected Shorts: Complicated Families
We all have one and the grass is always greener. This night closes out the season with some of our favorite classic and new tales of family angst and agita, read by Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), James Naughton and others. Hosted by BD Wong. |
Bloomsday on Broadway
On Sunday, June 16, 2013, we celebrate the 32nd annual BLOOMSDAY ON BROADWAY James Joyce ULYSSES marathon. Leading stars of stage and screen, noted writers and avid Joyceans will perform selections from Joyce's masterpiece. 7pm until after midnight.
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 | Thalia Book Club: Claire Messud The Woman Upstairs
The New York Times best-selling author of the literary page-turner The Emperor's Children discusses her richly drawn new novel: the riveting compulsively readable confession of a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Mass, drawn into the complex world of her new neighbors -- a Lebanese scholar and professor of Ethical History, his glamourous Italian artist wife and their son -- who move in and change her life in ways she never expected.
"An uncanny blend of maturity and mirth. Somehow, Messud can stand in that chilly wind blowing on us all and laugh".- (on The Emperor's Children) The Washington Post
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 | Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The superstar author makes a stop on his last official book tour to read from and discuss his first adult novel in eight years. From one of the world's most beloved storytellers--#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman--comes his first adult novel in eight years. Wondrous and imaginative, and at times deeply scary, The Ocean at the End of the Lane captures the very essence of childhood fear and uncertainty. In a clash of memory and reality, it is a pitched fever dream of a novel, and could very well be Gaiman's most accomplished work to date.
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 | Selected Shorts on Tour: New Milford Public Library, NJ
The hit public radio series and podcast, Selected Shorts, returns to BCCLS with a program of hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families by Martha McPhee, Shirley Jackson and Dave Eggers. Performed by Broadway actress Mia Dillon, Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker (L.A. Law).
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