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UPCOMING EVENTS
Joan Didion: The Art of Storytelling
A Conversation with David L. Ulin, Laila Lalami, and Steph Cha
Special appearances by Griffin Dunne and Mia Barron
Wednesday, May 19
6:00 pm ET
An iconic voice in contemporary American writing, Joan Didion through her novels and literary nonfiction reimagined the way stories are told. In the process, this “articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time,” in Joyce Carol Oates’ words, has become an inescapable influence on writers who have followed her.
Award-winning essayist and poet David L. Ulin, editor of the Library of America Joan Didion edition, leads a conversation exploring Didion’s importance, vital relevance, and crucial legacy with novelist and essayist Laila Lalami (winner of the American Book Award for her 2014 novel The Moor’s Account) and novelist Steph Cha, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award. Special guests: Obie Award-winning actress Mia Barron (The White Album) and actor Griffin Dunne, Didion’s nephew and director of the 2017 documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.
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PAST EVENTS
E. O. Wilson: An Earth Day Tribute
(April 22, 2021)
Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground
(April 15, 2021)
The Great American Western on Page and Screen
(March 30, 2021)
Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution and Still Can
(March 18, 2021)
Reading James Baldwin Now: Gabrielle Bellot on If Beale Street Could Talk
(March 3, 2021)
Poet of the People: The Greatness of Langston Hughes
(February 18, 2021)
American Democracy: The Task Before Us
(January 27, 2021)
Peanuts at 70, with Sarah Boxer, Jonathan Lethem, Clifford Thompson, and Chris Ware, moderated by Andrew Blauner
(December 16, 2020)
The Genius of Hemingway: Robert W. Trogdon, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein
(December 2, 2020)
The Nineteenth Amendment Turns 100: A New Look at the History of Women’s Suffrage, with Susan Ware and Stefanie Peters
(November 19, 2020; video not available)
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, with Ruth Franklin, Francine Prose, and John Guare
(October 29, 2020)
The Paranoid Style in American Politics: Revisiting Richard Hofstadter in the Time of Trump, with Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Arlie Hochschild, and Ira Katznelson
(October 13, 2020)
Reading James Baldwin Now: Eddie Glaude Jr., on “The White Man’s Guilt”
(September 23, 2020)
Thirteen Days: Abraham Lincoln and the Crisis of Presidential Succession, with Ted Widmer
(September 10, 2020)
It’s a New World, Golde: Classic American Musicals in the 21st Century
(August 26, 2020)
The Fate of the Earth: Jonathan Schell and His Legacy
(August 6, 2020)
Who Tells Your Story: Joanne B. Freeman on Hamilton and History
(July 28, 2020)
Reading James Baldwin Now: Darryl Pinckney on No Name in the Street
(July 16, 2020)
Reading James Baldwin Now: Farah Jasmine Griffin on “Sonny’s Blues”
(June 25, 2020)
Harold Bloom and the American Canon from Emerson to Toni Morrison, with David Mikics
(June 16, 2020)
What Is American Conservatism?, with Andrew J. Bacevich and Sean Wilentz
(June 4, 2020)
