Past Conversations from the Cullman Center Programs

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Deborah Cohen, a former Cullman Center fellow and the author of the newly-published Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain, talks with Andrew Solomon about shame and families, past and present.

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Noted contributors to the Review honor its essential place in contemporary culture. This event, a co-presentation with The New York Review of Books, will take place in the Celeste Bartos Forum.

The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture on American Civilization and Government

Part One: Mystery

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 7-8 pm

Beginning with the story of an Invisible Lady who visited New York City in 1804, Jill Lepore considers the strange history of the relationship between the unseen and the unknown. In this first of two illustrated lectures that range from the mysteries of the medieval church to the privacy settings on Facebook, Lepore argues that what was once mysterious became secret and, finally, private.

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Two former Cullman Center fellows, Robyn Creswell and Adam Shatz, talk about Creswell's translations of the Egyptian novelist's fictional masterpiece, That Smell, and his Notes from Prison.

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The former Cullman Center fellows José Manuel Prieto and Esther Allen talk with Keith Gessen about Prieto’s new novel, which Allen translated.

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Writers Ian Frazier and Karen Russell and restaurateur Danny Meyer tell favorite stories about lunch, with an introduction by Laura Shapiro and Rebecca Federman, the curators of the Library's current Lunch Hour NYC exhibition. Their conversation will be moderated by Molly O'Neill.

The Robert B. Silvers Lecture
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Following this year’s election, writer Darryl Pinckney will discuss the role of race and voting rights in American politics for the 2012 Robert B. Silvers Lecture. He is the author of the novel High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature. He is also a former fellow of The Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library.

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Former fellow Nathan Englander discusses his new play, The Twenty Seventh Man, which opens at the Public Theater in November, with the director Barry Edelstein and the journalist Alexis Soloski.

Former fellow John Tresch discusses his new book The Romantic Machine with philosopher Simon Critchley. 

Former Cullman Center fellows Pankaj Mishra and Ian Buruma discuss Mishra's new book, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia. 

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Robyn Creswell, a literary translator and the poetry editor of The Paris Review, will talk with the distinguished poet, journalist, and essayist James Fenton in a Paris Review interview. Both participants in the evening are current Fellows at the Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.   

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Former Cullman Center Fellow Nell Freudenberger discusses her new book, The Newlyweds, with journalist and poet Eliza Griswold at the New York Public Library. In her acutely perceptive and witty new novel, Freudenberger tells the story of an arranged marriage between a Bangladeshi woman and a man from Rochester, New York. In 2010, Freudenberger appeared in The New Yorker's "Top 20 Under 40" issue. 

Eliza Griswold is a journalist and poet whose most recent book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in 2011. Griswold has published poetry in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and elsewhere. 

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Former Cullman fellow Hari Kunzru discusses his new novel, Gods Without Men, with author Teju Cole.

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Former Cullman fellow Nathan Englander in conversation with playwright and performer Sarah Jones about his new collection of stories entitled, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.

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Former CSW Fellows John Jeremiah Sullivan and Wells Tower discuss the art of the essay in light of Sullivan's new book, Pulphead.

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Jean Strouse talks to Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, about the James Family on the occasion of the re-issue of Strouse's biogarphy, Alice James. 

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Roy Blount discusses his new book, Alphabetter Juice with James Shapiro.

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James Romm and Daniel Mendelsohn discuss Romm's Ghost on the Throne.

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