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Michael PalinAnd Now for Something Completely Different...
On today's show: Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin takes us behind the scenes of the seminal British comedy troupe. And Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto describes his latest cookbook. Also, an ER doctor shares his debut collection of short fiction. But first, skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg will argue that we should stop worrying about climate change and learn to demand the facts.
Keep Your Cool
Time magazine has called Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg one of the 100 most influential people in the world. His latest book makes a controversial argument: that the environmental movement has greatly exaggerated the dangers of climate change, and, as a result, distracted public attention from more urgent global crises.
Purchase Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming at amazon.com.
Events: Bjorn Lomborg will be speaking and signing books
Wednesday, September 5 at 1pm
United Nations Bookshop
2 United Nations Plaza
Iron Chef
As the Food Network's Iron Chef, Masaharu Morimoto represents his native Japan, but his cooking also borrows from Chinese, Italian, and French cuisine. His new cookbook includes 125 recipes for fusion dishes honed in Morimoto's restaurants in New York, Philadelphia, Tokyo, and Mumbai.
Purchase Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking at amazon.com.
Events: Masaharu Morimoto will be signing books and giving a cooking demonstration
Tuesday, September 4 at 8pm
Book Revue
313 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Vincent Lam's debut collection of short stories draws on his work as an emergency room physician, exploring the emotional aspect of the interactions between doctors and patients.
Purchase Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures at amazon.com.
Events: Vincent Lam will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, September 4 at 4pm
192 Books
192 10th Avenue (at 21st Street)
Events: Vincent Lam will be the 2007-2008 Narrative Medicine Rounds Inaugural Speaker
Wednesday, September 5 at 5pm
Columbia University Medical School Alumni Auditorium, Black Building, 1st Floor
650 West 168th Street (at Fort Washington Avenue)
Events: Vincent Lam will be speaking and signing books
Wednesday, September 5 at 8pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince Street (between Lafayette and Mulberry)
And Now for Something Completely Different...
To call a bit of comedy "Pythonesque" is to say that it's smart, irreverent, probably absurdist, and, most importantly, absolutely hilarious. Michael Palin - along with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam - formed the seminal British troupe Monty Python, inspiring a new adjective while creating an entirely different style of sketch comedy that has kept audiences laughing for nearly forty years.
Purchase Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years at amazon.com.
Events: Michael Palin will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, September 4 at 7pm
Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Triangle
Events: Michael Palin will be speaking at the 92nd Street Y
Wednesday, September 5 at 8pm
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