Book Talk: Keeper of My Kin
Historian Ada Ferrer will talk about the intersection between family, memoir and history, and her forthcoming book, Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter (Scribner 2026).
Historian Ada Ferrer will talk about the intersection between family, memoir and history, and her forthcoming book, Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter (Scribner 2026).
Harold Aram Veeser, English Professor and 2025-2026 Rifkind Fellow will read from and discuss his book in progress, a memoir of male anorexia confessions. While current hospital records show that more males than ever are presenting with eating disorders, few male anorexic memoirs have appeared.
Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction (forthcoming in April from Princeton University Press) takes readers behind the scenes to show how agents influence what we read.
Across the globe, survivors, activists and nations search for productive ways of moving forward in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Louis Bickford and Eduardo González have worked in many such areas. In conversation with Prof. Mikhal Dekel, they will talk about their lived experiences: challenges, successes, and the ideas and ideals that animate them.
Across the globe, survivors, activists and nations search for productive ways of moving forward in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Louis Bickford and Eduardo González have worked in many such areas. In conversation with Prof. Mikhal Dekel, they will talk about their lived experiences: challenges, successes, and the ideas and ideals that animate them.
Across the globe, survivors, activists and nations search for productive ways of moving forward in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Louis Bickford and Eduardo González have worked in many such areas. In conversation with Prof. Mikhal Dekel, they will talk about their lived experiences: challenges, successes, and the ideas and ideals that animate them.
A reading and conversation with poet and professor Rosanna Young Oh.
Professor Amr Kamal will speak about his new book, Emporialism: Department Store Fictions and the Politics of the Mediterranean. The book looks at the convergence between emporia (department stores) and spaces and imaginaries of empires, in the context of a modern Mediterranean divided between the British, French, and Ottoman empires.
The acclaimed Compagnia de’ Colombari, director Karin Coonrod conceived of Whitman on Walls: a hybrid project juxtaposing film and live performance in response to Walt Whitman’s radical “Song of Myself.” This ambitious project has travelled all over the country and world. Our launch features New York poets who have participated in previous events and are included in the anthology.
Tuesday, March 18th6:30PM-7:30PMRifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Free and open to the public Novelist, poet, and memoirist Andrew Krivák will read from his recent work and be in conversation with Professor Salar Abdoh. Krivák will discuss openings in his novels, and how the way a writer begins can — and should — shape the entire story. …