Author Talk

SIMON WINCHESTER will speak on his newest book, Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic. The New York Times best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman. he was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to journalism and literature. Simon Winchester lives in Massachusetts and…

Madhur Jaffrey in Conversation with André Bernard on September 30 from 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Madhur Jaffrey first introduced the West to the delights of Indian food almost 40 years ago and is an authority on Indian cooking. An award-winning actress in the 1960s and with many bestselling books to her name since, including Madhur Jaffrey’s Ultimate Curry…

Robert Kaplan will discuss his new book, The Loom of Time,  in conversation with Jim Brooke. Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-two books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Loom of Time, The Tragic Mind, Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, The Coming…

Author Olga Shevchenko in conversation with Jim Brooke to discuss her new book In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos Olga Shevchenko teaches and does research on the issues of memory, photography, culture and consumption in post-socialist Russia. Her forthcoming book, In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press, 2023), co-authored with Oksana…

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life author Alexander Stille is a journalist and author of six books as well as a professor of international journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Professor Stille graduated with a B.A. from Yale University and earned an M.S. at Columbia. He has worked as…

Author Martin Baron will be in conversation with Alan C. Miller discussing Martin's new book Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST. Martin Baron is a longtime journalist and newspaper editor. He ran the newsrooms of The Miami Herald and The Boston Globe before being named executive editor of The Washington Post in…

Judy White Staber was born into a theatrical family during World War II and came to America in 1959 working in the visual and performing arts for all her American life. She was a founding member of The Berkshire Arts Alliance and from 1996 through 2004, served as Executive Director for the Spencertown Academy, a…

Roxana Robinson is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The Southampton Review, Ep!phany and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and…

Harold Holzer is the recipient of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, Holzer was appointed chairman of the US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission by President Bill Clinton and awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. He…

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist with a global reach. Her new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure, explores why we should seek not-knowing in times of flux. Nominated for a National Book Award and named to three “Best Books of 2023” lists, Uncertain has been lauded as “incisive and timely…triumphant” (Dan Pink), “surprising and practical”…

Talk by Aaron Lansky How We Rescued a Million Yiddish Books and Why They Matter Aaron Lansky was 24 years old in 1980 when he took what he thought would be a two-year leave of absence from graduate school to rescue unwanted and discarded Yiddish books. At the time, scholars estimated there were just 70,000…

Going behind the scenes with a veteran member of the White House press corps Steven L Herman, chief national correspondent for the nonpartisan, government-funded Voice of America (VOA), weaves together memoir and history to pull back the curtain on the inner workings of the White House press corps, giving readers a rare glimpse into the…