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Literary Society Book Club

Refreshments Served

Event Date: Sep 23, 2007 4:00 PM

The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense

world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend’s death—and what her father is capable of. Meanwhile, a businessman desperate to find his missing two-year-old grandson in "Suicide Watch" must determine whether the horrifying tale his junky son tells him about the boy’s whereabouts is a confession or a sick test.

Event Date: Sep 05, 2007 7:00 PM

Jill Bialosky: The Life Room

Eleanor Cahn is a professor of literature, the wife of a preeminent cardiac surgeon, and a devoted mother. But on a trip to Paris to present a paper on Anna Karenina, Eleanor re-connects with Stephen—a childhood friend with whom she has had a complicated relationship—that forces her to realize that she has suppressed her passionate self for years. As the novel unfolds, we learn of her hidden erotic past:

Event Date: Sep 10, 2007 7:00 PM

Alan Cheuse: Fires

Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two novellas are linked so skillfully that they achieve the intensity of a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail on separate but equally compelling quests.

Event Date: Sep 06, 2007 7:00 PM

Daniel Pinchbeck

Author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin)

Event Date: Sep 11, 2007 7:00 PM

Upper North Side Canadian Authors Series: David Helwig

Author of Coming Through: Three Novellas (Bunim & Bannigan) Hosted by the Canadian Consulate General With special guest author Douglas Glover

Event Date: Sep 20, 2007 7:00 PM

Fiction Forum: Victoria Redel

The Writing Program at The New School presents Victoria Redel, author of The Border of Truth. Moderated by Robert Polito, director of the Writing Program at The New School.

Event Date: Sep 10, 2007 6:30 PM

Garrison Keillor

In this novel, Keillor's first Wobegon fiction since Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 was published in 2001, we meet Evelyn, a good church-going Lutheran, a devoted mother, a serious quilter.

Event Date: Sep 18, 2007 7:00 PM

Author Event - Bob Newhart

A guy is having an affair with his boss's wife. They are making mad passionate love, and she says, "Kiss me! Kiss me!" He looks at her very seriously and replies, "I shouldn't even be doing this!"

Event Date: Oct 12, 2007 5:30 PM

“The Secret Life of Bees”

Event Date: Nov 15, 2006 6:00 PM

Heidi Julavits and Lisa Moore

Event Date: Nov 19, 2006 7:00 PM

Fiction Reading - Red Hook

Event Date: Nov 29, 2006 8:00 PM

Nathan McCall: Them : A Novel

This combination of superbly developed characters, a realistic story line, and descriptions that profoundly capture the essence of this country's urban experience-in black and white-is the formula for the making of this truly great American novel.

Event Date: Nov 19, 2007 7:00 PM

Joe Meno--The Boy Detective Fails; Peter Plate--Soon the Rest Will Fall

Event Date: Dec 01, 2006 7:00 PM

Director's Forum: Honor Moore et al. Read Russian Modernist Poems

Event Date: Dec 06, 2006 6:30 PM

Kathryn Davis, author of “Thin Place

Event Date: Dec 11, 2006 6:30 PM

Love Never Painless

Event Date: Dec 12, 2006 1:00 PM

Marisha Pessl, author of “Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Event Date: Dec 13, 2006 8:30 PM

The 20th Anniversary of the Writers Studio

Event Date: Dec 07, 2006 7:00 PM

Bintell Powell, Betrayed

Event Date: Dec 03, 2006 6:00 PM

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