Image: Photograph of the original Tiny Tim, ca. 1848.
A Literary Christmas Miscellany from the Berg Collection
- Monday, November 25, 2013 through Sunday, January 5, 2014
- New York Public Library
- Free
Get ready for Christmas with a special holiday display of Charles Dickens’prompt copy of A Christmas Carol, from which he gave his public readings; a book with a Christmas theme by T.S. Eliot; Christmas greetings by James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, E.E. Cummings, and Maurice Sendak; and a Christmas letter from Jack Kerouac to his future wife, Stella Sampas.
- Tuesday, November 19, 2013
- 7:00PM – 8:00PM
- The Strand Bookstore
- 828 Broadway
- Buy a copy of Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames or a $15 Strand gift card in order to attend this event.
The Strand Bookstore will host “two contemporary authors who use humor to examine the pitfalls and foibles that mark all our lives.” Beth Lisick, author of Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames, is an expert at shining light onto the nooks and crannies of her own personal history. She will be joined by Michael Ian Black, author of You’re Not Doing It Right, who is a fellow comedian and memoirist. Both will talk about the process and occasional terrors of turning real-life stories into writing.
NYRB Classics and McNally Jackson: A Discussion of Stefan Zweig
- Thursday, November 21, 2013
- 7:00PM
- McNally Jackson
- 52 Prince Street
- Free
Edwin Frank, NYRB Classics editor,Joan Acocella, a book and dance critic for the New Yorker since 1992, Andre Aciman, author, most recently, of Harvard Square,Katie Kitamura, author of Gone to the Forest, and George Prochnik,editor-at-large ofCabinetmagazine, essayist, poet, and author of the forthcomingThe Impossible Exile will discuss the life, celebrity, and divisiveness of Stefan Zweig.
