Tag: talks-readings
The Voices of the Second Generation: Children of Survivors Writing Their Stories
Many in the second generation have chosen to write about their experiences as the children of Holocaust survivors. The products of these efforts take...
Imagining Digital | Deeper Lecture: Sahar Damoni
During Deeper Lectures Sahar Damoni shares the context and journey that has shaped her life and work as a Palestinian artist in Israel/Palestine,...
Queer History: Drag and the Waterfront
Why are queer communities often found at geographic peripheries like the waterfront? What is the connection between drag and the seaport? Join the...
Wanting: Women Writing About Desire
An intimate and empowering anthology of essays that explore the changing face of female desire in whip-smart, sensuous prose, with pieces by Tara...
Women’s Breakfast (for Dinner): The Power of the Romance Heroine
Romance novels have historically been written by women, for women and about women. The genre has gone through many iterations over time, from the...
The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe
Family lore had it that author Bonnie Siegler’s grandfather Jules crossed paths with Marilyn Monroe in Midtown Manhattan late one night in 1954,...
Daisy Alpert Florin Presents My Last Innocent Year, in conversation with Julia May Jonas
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman’s final semester at an elite New England...
Pen Parentis
Louis Greenstein, Sufija Abdur-Rahman, and Sara Lippman read from their work during this month's virtual salon.
Stories Survive: David Wiener
David Wiener was born on May 30, 1926, in Lodz, Poland, one of Moshe Chaim and Hannah Sur Wiener’s nine children. When he was thirteen, David...
