Events: December 6, 2012, Readings and Talks
Selected by Cathleen Schine
December 6, 2012, 6 pm – 8 pm
A Lecture on P. T. Barnum and Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bard Graduate Center, New York
Why these two together? I can't imagine, but I feel either one could come up with a compelling reason.
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December 6, 2012, 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Daniel Mendelsohn will talk about his new collection of essays on the classics and popular culture, Waiting for the Barbarians.
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December 6, 2012, 6 pm – 10 pm
Mark Lilla speaks at Evoke 2012
The US Consulate, Mumbai
Mark Lilla will speak on the topic of Faith at EVOKE 2012: Beauty-Money-Sexuality-Love-Violence-Faith-Substance.
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Selected by Nathaniel Rich
Ongoing
Room 220 Live Prose Reading Series
Press Street, New Orleans
Room 220 is the only place to find serious (and also irreverent) discussion of literature in New Orleans. Its fall reading series begins September 27.
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