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Toni Morrison on A Mercy
Celebrate this magnificent author and her new novel, A Mercy.
Hazel Rowley, Tete a Tete: Simone de Beavoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Hazel Rowley offers an intimate look at one of the world's most unconventional love stories.
Katha Pollitt, "When the Personal Becomes Political"
The acclaimed poet and columnist for The Nation discusses her new book of essays dealing with sex, death, ex-lovers, politics, motherhood, aging, and learning to drive.
An Evening with Poet Robert Hass
Essayist, translator, and activist on behalf of poetry, literacy, and the environment, the former United States Laureate is a poet of great clarity and force.
Two Actors, Two Authors, Two Lives
Alan Alda and Mike Farrell, former co-stars of M*A*S*H, both authors of recent memoirs, re-unite to discuss art, activism, family, money, and fame.
Armistead Maupin, Michael Tolliver Lives
Thirty years later, the central gay character of Tales of the City is an HIV+ gardener living in San Francisco facing issues of aging he never expected to face.
Edna O'Brien, The Light of Evening: A Novel
In conversation with writer Vanessa Place, special introduction by Angelica Huston.
Mary Gordon, A Writer's Life
In conversation with Bernadette Murphy, one of America's master storytellers probes the lives of her characters and how the workings of the world - both enormous events and intimate moments - define and change us.
Octavia E. Butler in Conversation with Akasha Gloria Hull
Butler, one of the world's great science fiction writers, explores the limits of "otherness" in her new novel.
An Evening with Adam Zagajewski
Considered the pre-eminent poet of his generation in Poland, Zagajewski writes poems that allow us "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."
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Skirball Cultural Center- Lectures and discussions on the arts and culture.
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