Join us for a conversation with novelist Elena Medel and Leeya Mehta, followed by a wine reception & a book signing.
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Erin Keane, author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me, will be in conversation with MFA alum Abi Newhouse as part of the fall Visiting Writers series.
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The Cheuse Center and the Center for the Art of Translation's annual Day of Translation will be held on Sept 30, 2022 at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
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The Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and the Cheuse Center present an evening with Elena Medel and Linda Chavez
Program includes a conversation between Medel and Chavez, followed by a wine reception and book signing in partnership with Politics & Prose Bookstore.
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Michael E. Mann, one of the most famous science communicators in the world, is back with his new book The New Climate War, which reveals the thirty year campaign major polluters have run to deflect blame for climate change onto individuals, and away from their own toxic practices.
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ROAR those ABCs with Chiêu Anh Urban in an interactive storytelling session with crafts! Kids 5 and under will delight in this romp through the animal kingdom as they learn the alphabet.
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Elementary-aged kids will love the playful primate facts and paper plate monkey craft that Debra Kempf Shumaker has in store after reading her book Peculiar Primates: Fun Facts About These Curious Creatures.
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Young sports lovers will learn how to become sportswriters in this interactive event for kids 8-12 with Fred Bowen. In his newest book, Hardcourt, Bowen follows NBA heroes like LeBron James through 75 years of wild b-ball history.
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Get creative with Jonathan Roth, author of the comic-style graphic novel, Rover and Speck: This Planet Rocks! In this hands-on workshop, Roth takes students aged 7-12 on a ride through creating their own compelling characters, and putting them into a cool graphic novel of their very own.
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How do filters work? Enjoy a hands-on, absorbing science project with Shana Keller, author of the picture book The Peach Pit Parade: A WWI Story - which follows a young girl helping find resources to make mask filters!
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In her biography, The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle, Jane Turner Censer sheds light on Rive’s substantial literary career and her personal saga providing insight into the limits of being a woman in the late nineteenth-century South. Sponsored by the Friends of Kings Park Library.
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In The Unquiet Dead, Stacie Murphy unfurls Gilded Age New York City through the eyes of medium Amelia Matthew, as she races against the clock, using her spirit connections to exonerate an innocent boy of a murder that would send him to Sing Sing Prison.
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Laurie Loewenstein, author of the acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, is back with the sequel, Funeral Train. Set in 1935 Oklahoma, when a train derails, and a local recluse is murdered, Sheriff Temple Jennnings must solve the crime while waiting to hear news on his wife.
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In Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020, Elisabeth Griffith presents a sweeping, diverse perspective on what happened after women won the right to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment, because it was an incomplete victory.
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