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(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Sex Politics
Proposition 8 was one of the most controversial issues on the ballots this year. Find out how the debates over sexuality are shaping American politics. Also: we pay tribute to the late actress Adrienne Shelley. Toni Morrison on her acclaimed new novel, A Mercy. And a look at how the front page of the New York Times has changed since its founding in 1851!
New York Times Front Pages, 1851-2008
Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, talks about what we can learn from how the front page of his newspaper has changed since its founding in 1851. More than 300 of the most important front pages have been published in a new book, The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008.
Sex in Crisis
Proposition 8, which passed in California on Election Day, was one of the most controversial issues on the ballots this year. Find out how debates over sexuality are shaping American politics. Dagmar Herzog’s new book is Sex in Crisis.
Events:
Panel discussion, “Power & Sex: America’s War on Sexual Rights”, with Dagmar Herzog, Faye Wattleton, Katha Pollitt, and Lynn Paltrow moderated by Michelle Fine.
Mon. Nov. 17 at 7:00 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets)
Free and open to the public
Dagmar Herzog will be speaking and signing books
Wed. Nov. 19 at 7:00 PM
Revolution Books
146 West 26th Street
Free and open to the public
Remembering Adrienne Shelley
After actress and director Adrienne Shelley was murdered in 2006,her husband Andy Ostroy created the Adrienne Shelley Foundation to support female filmmakers. Ostroy and Cheryl Hines join Leonard to remember Shelley.
Event:
The Adrienne Shelley Foundation is hosting a fundraiser gala
Mon. Nov. 17 at 7 pm
NYU/Tisch's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South)
Tickets and info available here or by calling 212-381-1750
Toni Morrison’s Latest Novel
Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison’s new novel, A Mercy, examines the many different forms of slavery, and the emotional toll it takes on the people involved in it.
Event:
Toni Morrison will be speaking & reading
Mon. Nov. 17 at 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble Union Square
33 East 17th Street.
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Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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