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(Paula Poundstone)
Comedian Paula Poundstone has staying power: her honest, off-kilter humor has pulled her through some serious controversy, and she’s still hitting the stand-up trail while many other comedians from the comedy-crazy 1980s have probably been reduced to performing at children’s birthday parties. She joins us to talk about her latest engagement at Joe’s Pub. Then Carol Bergman, MacKay Wolff, and Iain Levine discuss international humanitarian work. Plus, explorations of the lives and work of two literary legends: Oxford historian R.F. Foster on Irish poet W.B. Yeats, and Fred Kaplan on Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain).
Paula Poundstone
Comedian Paula Poundstone has staying power: her honest, off-kilter humor has pulled her through some serious controversy, and she’s still hitting the stand-up trail while many other comedians from the comedy-crazy 1980s have probably been reduced to performing at children’s birthday parties. Paula Poundstone is at Joe’s Pub on Friday, ...
Carol Bergman, MacKay Wolff and Iain Levine
Carol Bergman, editor of the new essay collection called Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories, is joined by contributors MacKay Wolff and Iain Levine.
Readings:
12/16: UN Bookstore from 1-3 pm
12/17: Housing Works Used Book Café, for a panel discussion and ...
12/16: UN Bookstore from 1-3 pm
12/17: Housing Works Used Book Café, for a panel discussion and ...
R.F. Foster
Fred Kaplan
Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, once said: "I think we never become really & genuinely our entire & honest selves until we are dead - and not then until we have been dead years & years." Fred Kaplan talks about The Singular Mark Twain, his new biography of Samuel Clemens. ...
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