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Kathy Gannon covered Afghanistan as an AP correspondent from 1986 to 2005. In I is for Infidel, she shares her account of the country’s history of occupation and war. Then, Nuala O'Faolain tells us about her biography of an infamous female con artist: The Story of Chicago May. Louise Erdrich shares her new novel, The Painted Drum. And Hilary Spurling looks at the life of Henri Matisse.
I is for Infidel
Kathy Gannon worked as a freelancer and AP correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1986 to 2005. She was only female journalist to be in Afghanistan throughout the Taliban rule, and she was the only Western journalist allowed into Kabul after 9/11. She tells us what she learned during 18 years in Afghanistan in I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror.
Music:
Pole Tricks – Japancakes
Blackout – John Scofield
The Story of Chicago May
Nuala O'Faolain has written two best-selling memoirs: Are You Somebody? and Almost There. Now she tries her hand at biography to study the life of a turn-of-the-century Irish con woman in The Story of Chicago May.
Events:
Nuala O’Faolain will be reading on:
Monday, September 26th at 7pm
Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle
Broadway and 66th Street
Music:
James Scott – Ragtime Nightingale
H Charleston Woods – The Charleston Rag
from Sweet Sixteenths: A Ragtime Concert
The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich shares her new novel, The Painted Drum. The book studies the relationship between an antiquities dealer and a rare Native American drum found in New Hampshire.
Events:
Louise Erdrich will be speaking on:
Monday, September 26th at 8pm
92nd St. Y
Tuesday, September 27th at 7pm
Barnes & Noble, Union Square
Music:
Louise Erdich – The Painted Drum
Music from Dances With Wolves # 1, 2
Matisse the Master
Hilary Spurling follows up The Unknown Matisse, her biography of Matisse’s early life, with a second volume on the often misunderstood artist: Matisse the Master.
Music:
Hilary Spurling – Matisse The Master
Darius Milhaud – Music for Wind Instruments #1, 2, 7
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