Philip Quarles

Before the controversy of the American publication of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov cuts a different figure at this 1958 Books and Authors Luncheon.

Mumford de-emphasized technology as man's defining achievement, arguing that language and communication were the essential elements of civilization and that the city.

Moses laments the atmosphere of distrust that has arisen around government, the result of "altogether too many newspapers" conducting too many investigations.

Michener speaks at a 1957 Book and Author Luncheon 

In this 1950 speech given at a Books and Authors Luncheon, W. Somerset Maugham lays out his surprisingly detailed plan for a foreign academy to promote the growth of American literature.

Isaac Don Levine, George F. Kennan, and Sidney Hook talk about the USSR with the Overseas Press Club.

Philippine dictator hailed at City Hall.

Everything But Money is both the title of funny man Sam Levenson's autobiography and the theme in this talk.

Burlesque icon Gypsy Rose Lee talks about, show biz, Being stranded in Oregon, and her love of bald men.

Nine months after his brother's death, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy enters the New York Senate race.

Kazin talks about his New Yorker trilogy at this 1965 Book and Author Luncheon.

Garson Kanin dishes about his book on Somerset Maugham

Was this man the model for Dr. Strangelove?

Jane Jacobs explains her role as a community leader in the fight against what she views as the excesses and excrescences of the arrogant Modernist redesign of city neighborhoods.

The author of "Queen of the Sob Sisters" speaks at this 1958 Book and Author Luncheon

Hotchner talks about Hemingway at this Book and Author Luncheon

A surprise waiting in the audience makes for a heated situation.

"New York City Mayors I Have Known" might be the better title for this 1954 installment of Campus Press Conference featuring guest Harry Hershfield -- columnist, cartoonist, and "Toastmaster Extraordinary."

David Halberstam asks us to "keep [our] imagination dry."

Writer of "armchair travel lit," John Gunther, speaks about Africa at this Book and Author Luncheon