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July 7, 2010

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Frank Bruni

bruni-bornround300dpi.jpgWednesday, July 7, 2010
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Author Frank Bruni discusses his memoir Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, an unflinching account of a restaurant critic whose life revolved around his obsession with food and his inability to shed his fat-boy image. This is a heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of struggling with his outsize appetite.

Frank Bruni is a writer for Times Magazine and was the former restaurant critic for The New York Times. Before that he served as the newspaper’s Rome bureau chief and as a White House correspondent. His 2002 book about George W. Bush, Ambling into History, was a New York Times best seller. He lives in New York City.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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July 11, 2010

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Alice Sparberg Alexiou

flatiron.jpgSunday July 11, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Historian Alice Sparberg Alexiou will speak on her new book, The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It . From its completion in 1902, the Flatiron Building became a symbol of turn-of-the-century New York, representing the changes that were about to make the city what it is today. Its unique architectural style captured the imagination of painters, photographers, and writers, and the building has become almost synonymous with New York itself. The book will be the basis of a new documentary film by Vanguard Documentaries.

Alice Sparberg Alexiou holds a masters in journalism from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in classics from Fordham University. She has written for several publications, including The New York Times and Newsday, and is an editor of Lilith magazine, an independent magazine for Jewish women.

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July 11, 2010

The Usual Suspects: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

The-sweetness-at-the-bottom.jpgSunday, July 11, 2010
2:00 pm
Seminar Room

Discussion of the mystery The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old girl with a passion for concocting poisons in post-WWII England investigates when a man is left dead in the family garden and her father is the main suspect.

For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome.

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July 22, 2010

Sizzling Summer Film Series: The Conversation

The-Conversation.jpgThursday, July 22, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy summer Thursdays with a cool drink, a short introduction, and a film as a part of the tenth season of this series. At once a suspense film and a character study, Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation was nominated for four Oscars and won the Golden Palm at Cannes. Starring Gene Hackman with Harrison Ford in an early appearance. "One of the best of the decade" said the critics. (1974, 113 minutes)

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July 28, 2010

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Ronica Dhar

bijouroy.jpgWednesday July 28, 2010
Noon
McManus Room

Ronica Dhar discusses her debut novel Bijou Roy: A Novel. When Bijou Roy loses her father to a long illness, she travels to India a quest for answers of what happens next when the customs of neither an original nor an adopted culture provide comfort. Bijou sees how each generation must wrestle—often at great risk—with the one who came before, and, perhaps above all, comes to learn how to replace sorrow with hope.

“Ronica Dhar captures the struggles of family and cultural identity with such tenderness and depth of feeling that she makes these subjects completely her own. Bijou Roy is a thoughtful, elegant novel.”—Ann Patchett

Ronica Dahr was a New York Foundation for the Arts 2006 Fellow in Fiction. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan where she received the Meijer award and the Hopwood award.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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July 29, 2010

Sizzling Summer Film Series: Being Julia

Being-Julia.jpgThursday, July 29, 2010
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy summer Thursdays with a cool drink, a short introduction, and a film as a part of the tenth season of this summer series. In Being Julia, Annette Bening, as a stage star in 1930s London, does a wonderful send-up of a diva. She won the Golden Globe for best actress and was nominated for an Oscar. With Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon, it's about an amorous folly and magnificent — and totally delicious — revenge. (2004, 104 minutes)

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