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Christopher Hitchens talks with Salman Rushdie about his memoir Hitch-22 at the 92nd Street Y.

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John Banville and Claire Messud reading new work
In Mrs. Osmond, his vivid and poignant new novel about a wholly modern woman, John Banville imagines a sequel to Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. “He is one of the great living masters of English-language prose,” wrote the Los Angeles Times. Claire Messud’s new novel, The Burning Girl, is a hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends and a complex portrait of female adolescence. “She has the imagination, the craft and the understanding of human nature to write about anything she chooses,” wrote the Chicago Tribune.

Introductions by Colum McCann and Liesl Schillinger

Recorded Thursday, November 16 at 92nd Street Y.
Jason Reynolds reads from Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds reads from his YA verse novel, Long Way Down, beautifully illustrated by Chris Priestley.

Excerpted from the audiobook: Long Way Down.

Published by Faber & Faber, 2018

Synopsis:

After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Don't cry. Don't snitch. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with Shawn's gun, determined to follow The Rules. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will's friend who died years ago. And Dani, who was shot years before that. As more people from his past arrive, Will has to ask himself if he really knows what he's doing.
Together We Rise by The Women's March Organizers and Conde Nast
On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, more than three million marchers of all ages and walks of life took to the streets as part of the largest protest in American history.

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of Women’s March, this gorgeously designed full-color book offers an unprecedented, front-row seat, with exclusive interviews with Women’s March organizers, never-before-seen photographs, and essays by feminist activists.
Bleak Liberalism
Basic political beliefs guide our way of being in the world. For a long time, liberalism was one of the most powerful of these orienting ideas. But liberalism has been attacked from both the left and the right as inadequate to our time. In Bleak Liberalism, a deft blend of intellectual history and literary analysis, Brown University's Amanda Anderson ranges from Charles Dickens to Doris Lessing to take a new look at the robustness and subtlety of liberal thinking and the fate of those ideas in the past century.
Nathan Runkle: "Mercy for Animals" | Talks at Google
Nathan Runkle, author and founder of Mercy for Animals - Animal welfare and factory farming in United States.

Nathan Runkle is an American animal rights advocate. He is the founder and executive director of Mercy For Animals. Since founding Mercy For Animals over a decade ago, Runkle has overseen the organization's growth into a leading national force in the prevention of cruelty to farmed animals and promotion of compassionate food choices and policies.

He is a nationally recognized speaker on animal advocacy, factory farming, and veganism, Runkle has presented at colleges, conferences, and many other forums from coast to coast.

Runkle works closely with MFA's diverse group of members, supporters, and employees to oversee, develop, and fulfill objectives within the organization's four areas of focus: education, legal advocacy, corporate outreach, and undercover investigations.

He has worked alongside elected officials, corporate executives, heads of international organizations, professors, farmers, celebrities, and film producers to pass landmark farmed animal protection legislation, raise public awareness about vegetarianism, and implement animal welfare policy changes.

This new book looks at animal welfare and factory farming in the United States from the leading international force in preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies.
Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Windfall
Meghan L. O'Sullivan discusses her new book, 'Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America's Power.'
Denis Johnson Tribute: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Join us as Min Jin Lee, Alexander Chee, and Deborah Treisman gather to talk about and read from Denis Johnson final, posthumously published collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, featuring some of "the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century".

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden enters a new frontier in his work, utilizing his luminous prose to contemplate the ghosts of time and the complex interactions amongst the mysteries of the universe.

Min Jin Lee's Pachinko (Feb 2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017, a USA Today Top 10 Books of 2017, and an American Booksellers Association's Indie Next Great Reads. Her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was one of the "Top 10 Novels of the Year" for The Times (London), NPR's Fresh Air, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, The Times (London), Vogue, Travel+Leisure, Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for the Chosun Ilbo, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York with her family.

Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April of 2018. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, and Out, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.

Deborah Treisman has been the fiction editor of the New Yorker since 2003, and was deputy fiction editor for six years before that. She hosts the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast, and was the editor of the anthology 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker.
Jennifer Egan and Nathan Englander reading new work
Jennifer Egan (A Visit From the Goon Squad) returns with Manhattan Beach, a heroine-driven adventure story with the atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of period detail about New York from the Great Depression through World War II. “She gives us a great, gasping, sighing, breathing whole,” wrote Cathleen Schine. Nathan Englander’s new novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, is a time-shifting political thriller about an American Jew turned Israeli spy turned traitor. “It's superb: a work of psychological precision and moral force with an immediacy that captures both timeless human truth as well as the perplexities of the present day,” wrote Colson Whitehead.

Introductions by Alexandra Schwartz and Jordan Pavlin
“It’s Even Worse Than You Think”: David Cay Johnston on Trump’s First Year
Uninformed. That was the word White House Chief of Staff John Kelly used to describe his boss, President Trump, on Thursday. According to The Washington Post, Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that some of Trump’s hardline immigration policies—including his call to build a wall along the entire southern border— were “uninformed.” Kelly said, “Certain things are said during the campaign that are uninformed.” Well, today we spend the hour looking at Trump’s first year in office with David Cay Johnston, a journalist who has been covering Donald Trump since 1988. He is out this week with a new book titled “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.”
Tony Kushner and Jeremy McCarter: Radical Stories
How has America been made and remade by men and women who dream of a better world? Why do we tell and retell their stories? Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals and co-author with Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton: The Revolution, comes to CHF for an urgently needed conversation about the challenge and the necessity of depicting American dreamers with Tony Kushner, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, the Academy Award-nominated screenplay of Lincoln, and the forthcoming The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Join us for a timely discussion about American ideals and the people who fight for them.
Fiction lovers panel with Emily Ruskovich, Lisa Wingate, and Elizabeth Berg
Novelists Emily Ruskovich (IDAHO), Lisa Wingate (BEFORE WE WERE YOURS), and Elizabeth Berg (THE STORY OF ARTHUR TRULUV) discuss their latest books and literary lives. Moderated by Refinery29’s Elizabeth Kiefer. Filmed at Random House Off the Page in New York City, 11/9/17.
Noam Cohen: "The Know-It-Alls"
Noam Cohen, a former New York Times tech columnist, discusses his book THE KNOW-IT-ALLS: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball. It’s a fascinating biographical history of Silicon Valley pioneers, and is sure to make for a robust debate on the wider effect of tech culture on politics and society.
Jacqueline Woodson as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
The Library of Congress, in collaboration with the Children’s Book Council (CBC) and Every Child a Reader, will inaugurate Jacqueline Woodson as the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature on Tuesday, Jan. 9, at 10:30 a.m. The National Ambassador program was created in 2008 to raise national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature as it relates to literacy, education and the betterment of the lives of young people.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on “How We Get Free"
We speak with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about the new collection of essays she edited that is titled “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.” Taylor is an assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.”
Meet the Woman Behind the Men in Media List
Moira Donegan started the online spreadsheet of men in the media industry accused of sexual harassment. She spoke with The Times about why she created it and what her life has been like since.

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