Join us at The Institute Library for an evening with the brilliant and engaging DEBBY APPLEGATE while she discusses her latest book Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age.
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2022 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Rachel Nalebuff Kauder comes to celebrate the publication of Our Red Book, a collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the … Continue reading Rachel Kauder Nalebuff & Friends: OUR RED BOOK
Saturday, January 28th, 2023 from 2:00-4:00 Mr. Ramsey will be discussing the subject of his next work, and his writing process. Light refreshments will be served at this casual event. … Continue reading Join Writer Calvin Ramsey in our Biography Room
Local Luminary Hank Paper visits the Institute Library Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 4:00-6:00pm Paper's new book, My Search for Meaning, The Myron Stories is a collection of comic short stories. Whether fighting an interloping … Continue reading Book Launch & Reading: My Search for Meaning, The Myron Stories by Hank Paper
Longtime New Haven journalist Randall Beach visits to talk about his recently published collection of profiles of New Haven area personalities, Connecticut Characters: Rascals and Renegades.
Robert Lisak and David Ottenstein, master photographers, discuss their book Capitol America: A Photographic Portrait of the 50 State Capitols.
Culture writer Chris Molanphy visits to discuss his latest book, Old Town Road, about the single (and cultural phenomenon) by Lil Nas X.
An Evening of Fashion & Fascism in conversation with the authors Gioia Diliberto, Becky Conekin & Debby Applegate
Caedmon Records LP recordings of famous poets reading their own work.
A little chance to relax and think and absorb noted works of poetry as read by its authors. This month, we continue our tour of Caedmon recordings from the 20th century, and visit the 1950s recordings of Pound, Eliot, and Sitwell: Masters of Irony, Collage, and Innovation? Or Complicated Fops and Poseurs?
Joan Kwon Glass's most recent collection, Daughter of Three Kingdoms, is the winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize. Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms explores themes familiar to those who know Kwon's work: it's described as part lamentation and part hymn—an illumination of diasporic hungers, hauntings, absence, and resilience. This collection "explores colonialism and “postcolonialism” through disordered eating, suicide loss, religious damage, familial estrangement, addiction, motherhood, and recovery.
