powerHouse Arena + Penguin Classics Present: Laura Miller & Ruth Franklin on Shirley Jackson June 27, 2013, 7:00pm - 9:00pm 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 718.666.3049 RSVP@powerHouseArena.com Sharp: A Discussion of Women & Criticism May 8, 2013, 7:00pm Housing Works Bookstore 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY The Middlebrow March 20, 2013, 6:30pm Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor This symposium will examine the cultural phenomenon of the middlebrow. During the height of middlebrow culture--the postwar era of the Book-of-the-Month Club--critical mandarins made great fun of the cultural aspirations of middleclass Americans. But if, as many argue, we have since undergone a great cultural leveling, is that entirely for the good? Do we miss the middlebrow? Or does it still exist in the form of high end television and "accessible" literary fiction? Discussion with literary critics Ruth Franklin, Daniel Mendelsohn,Christine Smallwood, and critic and editor Jennifer Szalai. Moderated by Christopher Beha, associate editor, Harper's Magazine. Writing Writers' Lives: 5th Annual Leon Levy Biography Conference March 18, 2013, 2:15pm - 3:15 pm Writing Jewish Lives: Ruth Franklin (Shirley Jackson), moderator. Greg Bellow (Saul Bellow's Heart), Joshua Rubenstein (Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life), Steven Weitzman (Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom). Co-sponsored by the Jewish Lives series of Yale University Press. PS 321 Writers Series January 27, 2013, 2:00 - 4:00 PM 180 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY Readings by: Lev Grossman (The Magicians), Sophie Gee (Scandal of the Century), Anna Funder (All That I Am) Moderated by Ruth Franklin Reading Holocaust Literature January 30, 2013, 6:00-8:00 PM Yeshiva University Museum YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Jewish Theological Seminary To mark the publication of Holocaust Literature: A History & Guide (University Press of New England), the Jewish Theological Seminary, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Yeshiva University Museum invite you to a panel discussion with the authors, David G. Roskies and Naomi Diamant. Leading the discussion will be the noted Holocaust historian, Samuel Kassow (Trinity College) and the author-critic Ruth Franklin (The New Republic). The Hampton Synagogue Author Discussion Series August 9, 2012, 7:30 PM 154 Sunset Avenue, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978 631.288.0534 2012 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism [ VIDEO ] May 30, 2012, 7:00 PM Reviewing Translations [ VIDEO ] May 9, 2012, 6:00 PM The New School, Wollman Hall 65 West 11th Street, NYC 10011 In The Beginning There Were Words: The Greatest Jewish Books February 21, 2012, 8:15 PM Buttenwieser Hall @ 92Y 1395 Lexington Avenue, NYC 10128 212.415.5500 |
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