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2009-2010

The George Washington University and Washington DCJCC present
Myla Goldberg
The Story Behind Stories
Thursday, January 28, 7:30 pm
$10; Member/Senior/Under 25 $8

Myla Goldberg left her native Maryland for college and then a year in Prague before settling down in Brooklyn, New York. She has contributed to anthologies and literary magazines. Her award-winning first novel Bee Season was made into a feature film starring Richard Gere. Goldberg offers a behind-the-scenes look at where novels come from, talking about what inspired her novels Bee Season and Wickett's Remedy, guiding you through the unpredictable and often funny combinations of subconscious fermentation, research, surprise, and hard work that have lead her to write books.

Sponsored by the David Bruce Smith Family Foundation.

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Lenore Skenazy
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry
Sunday, January 31, 4:00pm
$8; Member/Senior/Under 25 $5
Babysitting available, email lilikg@washingtondcjcc.org by January 27

After Lenore Skenazy let her 9-year-old ride the New York City Subway by himself--and then wrote a column about it--she found herself on the Today Show, NPR and Dr. Phil defending herself as NOT "America's Worst Mom." (But Google that and there she is.) She quickly founded freerangekids.com to explain her parenting philosophy: She believes in safety! In seat belts, and helmets, and carrying an extra sweater in case it's cold! But she also believes that a child can walk to school without a security detail.

Lenore Skenazy is a syndicated columnist, humorist, and founder of Free-Range Kids. She has written for periodicals from Reader's Digest to The Times (of London) to Mad magazine, and been a commentator on CNBC, the Food Network, and NPR. She lives with her husband and two sons in New York City.

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Annabelle Gurwitch & Jeff Kahn
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up
Wednesday, February 24, 7:30 pm
$10; Member $8

After 13 years of marriage, Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn have found, "We're just not that into us." In their hilarious and ultimately moving new memoir, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story, actors/comedians/writers/real-life married couple Annabelle and Jeff prove that in marriage, all you need is love--and a healthy dose of complaining, co-dependence and Pinot Noir.

In partnership with the 16th Street J's J on Demand program for young professionals ages 21-35.

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The George Washington University and Washington DCJCC present
Howard Jacobson
Kalooki Nights
Thursday, February 25, 7:30 pm
$10; Member/Senior/Under 25 $8

Novelist, critic and broadcaster Howard Jacobson has authored several novels, beginning with Coming From Behind in 1983, followed by Peeping Tom, a comedy of sexual jealousy satirizing literary biography. His other works include The Mighty Walzer, set in the Jewish community in Manchester during  the 1950's, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and the Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction in 2000. Jacobson's best known novel, Kalooki Nights, described by the London Times as "a work of genius," won the Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize and was long-listed for the Booker Prize. His most recent novel is The Act of Love.

Howard Jacobson writes a weekly column for The Independent and is currently serving as The George Washington University's third British Council UK Writer in Residence, a program jointly sponsored by the British Council and GWU through the Jenny Moore Endowment. His residency is from February 5 through March 7, 2010.

Sponsored by the David Bruce Smith Family Foundation.

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The George Washington University and Washington DCJCC present
Gabriel Brownstein
The Man From Beyond: A Novel
Thursday, March 4, 7:30 pm
Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th Street NW
$10; Member/Senior/Under 25 $8

Award-winning author Gabriel Brownstein discusses his book The Man From Beyond. In April 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade. In the newspapers, he defends the powers of the mysterious Margery, one of the most famous mediums of the day. His good friend Harry Houdini is a skeptic. Enter Molly Goodman, a young reporter whose job is to cover the heated debate. As she wanders into this world of spooks and spirits, murder and criminal frauds, Molly comes to realizations about her own life.

Brownstein will also discuss his new story "Occupations, Settlements, Territories" about a mixed-up kid working at a socialist Zionist summer camp. This story will be published in the Spring 2010 issue of the Harvard Review.

Gabriel Brownstein won the PEN/ Hemingway Award for his collection The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W. He is currently an Assistant Professor of in the Department of English at St. John's University in Queens, NY.

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation presents
E.L. Doctorow and Ivy Meeropol
Telling Truths: Transforming the Historical into Novel and Documentary
Moderated by Molly Elkin
Monday, March 15, 7:30 pm
$15

**This reading is sold out, however some tickets may become available at the door on the night of the event.**

Novelist E.L. Doctorow and documentary filmmaker Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, discuss their respective treatments of the Rosenberg affair—in which the Rosenbergs were tried and executed for allegedly sharing U.S. atomic bomb secrets with the Soviet Union—and its aftermath. Two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner E.L. Doctorow reads from and discusses his novel The Book of Daniel, which takes as its protagonist Daniel Isaacson, the son of two convicted spies executed by their own country, Russia. Ivy Meeropol’s 2003 documentary film, Heir to An Execution, about the legacy of her grandparents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, premiered in the Documentary Competition of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, was short-listed for an Academy Award, and later aired on HBO.

Co-sponsored by the the 16th Street J's Authors Out Loud series.


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