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Literature in Performance
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| Writers and performers come together to celebrate literature at Symphony Space, home of the beloved series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, as well as intimate and interactive Thalia Book Club author conversations and the Thalia Kids’ Book Club, bringing kids 9-12 face to face with writers they love. This season, Stephen King, John Lithgow, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joan Allen, Richard Ford, Edwidge Danticat, David Strathairn, Brian Selznick, Cynthia Nixon and many more come to 95th & Broadway for memorable discussions and spellbinding readings. |
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The award-winning author and essayist opens the Selected Shorts season. As guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2008, Rushdie discusses two of his most compelling picks for this year’s anthology.
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Showdate: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 7:00 pm
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Three storytellers take on the competitive, convivial, pleasurable, cramped, fun, and stressful world of work. Dark and funny tales that will have you laughing uproariously, by Joshua Ferris (Then We Came to the End), Lydia Davis, and T.C. Boyle.
Tickets: $27; Members $25
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Showdate: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 7:00 pm
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New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke makes a rare appearance to talk about the stunning conclusion to the beloved Inkheart trilogy, a thrilling adventure series.
Tickets: $18; Children $12; Members $12; Just Kidding Club $8
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Showdate: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 1:00 pm
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In 1927, a Russian immigrant woman set off from New York City to walk home to Russia on foot. Amy Bloom tells how she took this kernel of historic fact and dreamed up a lush, epic, and yet wonderfully intimate novel.
Tickets: $22; Members $18
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Showdate: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7:30 pm
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Believer editors Ed Park (author of the novel Personal Days) and Heidi Julavits (her most recent novel is The Uses of Enchantment) introduce fiction and creative nonfiction by writers for their monthly book and culture magazine, published by McSweeney's.
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Showdate: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 7:00 pm
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The playwright (Reasons to be Pretty, The Shape of Things), filmmaker (Nurse Betty, In the Company of Men) and short story writer (“Seconds of Pleasure”) introduces three stories about relationships and talks about creating characters for film, theatre and the page.
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Showdate: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 7:00 pm
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Tom Wolfe celebrates the 40th anniversary of his now classic portrait of Ken Kesey and his cohort of hippies, The Merry Pranksters. Join us as we return to that LSD-fueled, cross-country trip from the summer of 1964 aboard the groovy psychedelic-painted school bus. Both superbly reported and sublimely entertaining, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was called “Day-Glo book; illuminating, merry, surreal!” by The Washington Post. Wolfe discusses his book with novelist Rick Moody.
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Showdate: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 7:30 pm
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Louise Erdrich (The Plague of Doves) talks about her latest collection of stories with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The book features skillfully woven, multigenerational stories of family entanglements, desperate passions, and dangerous choices.
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Showdate: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 7:30 pm
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Bring someone to hold your hand at this evening of spine-tingling tales of the eerie craft by Joyce Carol Oates and other masters of the sublimely scary.
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Showdate: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 7:00 pm
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The author of the Bartimaeus Trilogy discusses his new novel that follows a young shepherd on a hero’s quest. Along the way he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and the truth about the legends he grew up listening to.
Tickets: $18; Children $12; Members $12; Just Kidding Club $8
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Showdate: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 1:00 pm
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Brooks discusses her latest historical novel with award-winning journalist John Hockenberry, the host of WNYC’s new morning show, The Takeaway. The book, inspired by a real rare illuminated manuscript, imagines its life from its creation in medieval Seville to the present, through the lives of the people who come into contact with the book.
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Showdate: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 7:30 pm
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The Hungarian Pastry Shop, a cozy bakery café in Morningside Heights, is the site where Nathan Englander (The Ministry of Special Cases), Julie Otsuka (When the Emperor Was Divine), and Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances) met and became friends and where they write. Each of them will introduce a story of his or her own.
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Showdate: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 7:00 pm
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Kirsten Miller talks about her popular middle-grade series Kiki Strike, the action-packed adventures of delinquent girl scouts out for revenge and a secret city below the streets of Manhattan.
Tickets: $18; Children $12; Members $12; Just Kidding Club $8
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Showdate: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 1:00 pm
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Chandler’s dark first novel is full of endlessly inventive wordplay, with the wry, cynical, private detective Philip Marlowe. Join the investigation with two contemporary masters of detective fiction and film when they compare notes on Chandler’s grand style, its place in the mystery canon, and its influence on their work.
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Showdate: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 7:30 pm
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Launched in 1920, Black Mask was a hugely successful pulp magazine of adventure, mystery, and crime stories. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler were just two of the notable contributors.
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Showdate: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 7:00 pm
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Two-time Newbery Medal winner Gary Schmidt talks about the frequently comic mishaps and adventures of a 12-year-old Long Island boy in the Vietnam era.
“One of my favorite books of the year.”
—The New York Times
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Showdate: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 1:00 pm
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Homer’s Illiad, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Dante’s The Divine Comedy are just three of the most famous works from the oral literary tradition. From the wrath of Achilles to the swashbuckling adventures of the founder of Rome to the doomed love of Paolo and Francesca, these are gripping stories.
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Showdate: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 7:00 pm
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Editor James Atlas, shown at left, former editor at The New York Times Magazine, joins some of the contributors to this new anthology—which include: Da Chen (China), Uzma Aslam Khan (Pakistan), Terry Eagleton (England), and Tom Segev (Israel)—to discuss their perspectives on America and its place in the world today.
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Showdate: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 7:30 pm
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The National Book Award-winning author of The Penderwicks talks about the much-loved series that takes readers into the enchanting world of four very different sisters. Fans of classic children’s literature will love the charming, old-fashioned style that still appeals to a contemporary audience.
Tickets: $18; Children $12; Members $12; Just Kidding Club $8
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Showdate: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 1:00 pm
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Escape to the “City of Light” as seen through the eyes of classic masters and young new writers. Experience three lustrous and varied portraits of Paris. (And then get your Passport to London on April 15.)
[Presented in cooperation with La Maison Française, N.Y.U.; fi:af, the French Institute Alliance Francaise; and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.]
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Showdate: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 7:00 pm
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An evening of side-splitting comedy, from silly slapstick to dark satire, that will make you laugh out loud and roll in the aisles. (Aisle-rolling allowed for this event, only.)
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Showdate: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7:00 pm
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Don’t miss our first teen book club event! The author talks about his National Book Award-winning novel, a semi-autobiographical tale about a Native-American boy living on the Spokane Indian reservation while attending an all-white school.
”Alexie nimbly blends sharp wit with unapologetic emotion in his first foray into young-adult literature.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Tickets: $18; Children $12; Members $12; Just Kidding Club $8
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Showdate: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 1:00 pm
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This second Passport event presents three stories set in London. Each story reveals a different side of the rich tapestry of the city.
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Showdate: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 7:00 pm
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Funny, surprising, and poignant stories by controversial Yiddish writers —Nobel prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholem Asch, and Moishe Nadir — who sometimes scandalized their mainstream critics. [Presented in cooperation with National Yiddish Book Center.]
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Showdate: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 7:00 pm
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In this stunning new book by the author of the #1 bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi returns to Iran to tell the story of her family, growing up in thrall to a powerful mother, and the mesmerizing fictions she created about herself, her past and the family life.
“You will be taken inside a culture, and on a journey that you will never forget.”
—National Public Radio on Reading Lolita in Tehran
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Showdate: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 7:30 pm
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Tales of transformations both physical and emotional. From science fiction to moving and wild family stories. Here are tales of dramatic change, with unexpected twists and turns.
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Showdate: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 7:00 pm
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David Wroblewski talks about his deeply satisfying first novel, a multigenerational family story, great adventure and murder mystery, set in the farmlands of northern Wisconsin. This mesmerizing book centers on the coming of age of a mute teenage boy who has a rare ability to communicate with dogs.
“The most enchanting debut novel of the summer “
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“This book is unforgettable; overwhelmingly recommended for all libraries.”
—Library Journal
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Showdate: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 7:30 pm
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The 28th annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses will once again follow selected adventures of Joyce’s hero, Mr. Leopold Bloom, as he makes his way through his ordinary Dublin day and back home to his ever-loving Molly. As on every Bloomsday, a cast of nearly 100 Broadway and film stars, Selected Shorts regulars, and avid Joyceans will join in the carefully crafted excerpts staged by Isaiah Sheffer.
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Showdate: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 6:00 pm
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