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Alison Davis Curry
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014, EXAMINER
On the scene: Uma Thurman hosts House of Speakeasy Inaugural Gala
Read MoreBOOKTHEWRITER for the Perfect Book Group
Last month comedian Andy Borowitz lamented the irony that although we now live in an age of free content we sadly don’t live in an age of free food. Indeed, as seems to be the dominant model in a world of 99%ers and 1%ers, only the most commercially successful writers can really get by. Fortunately […]
Read MoreThe Real Count of Monte Cristo
“To remember a person is the most important thing in the novels of Alexandre Dumas,” writes Tom Reiss in the opening pages of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Black Count (Crown, 2012). “The worst sin anyone can commit is to forget.” It’s a sin Reiss cannot be accused of, for The Black Count is above all an act of memorial. Alex […]
Read MoreSeriously Entertaining Gala Sets Social Pages Alight
“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” — Robert Frost, “Fire and Ice” (1923) So wrote Robert Frost in 1923, eerily prescient in his choice of imagery of this past Monday night. For inside the walls of City Winery NYC, as temperatures outside dipped into the low 20s, the House […]
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014, WSJ Speakeasy
Uma Thurman, Susan Orlean Host A Night for the Literary Elite
Read MoreWhy We Fight: Body Counts, Surviving the Plague, and the Angels in America
There’s a poster currently on display in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building advertising a “MASSIVE PROTEST” to “STOP THE CHURCH” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It’s almost twenty-five years old but quite as shocking as it was in 1989. In fact, pretty much all the material in the New York Public Library‘s moving exhibition “Why We […]
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014, Daily Mail Online UK
Uma Thurman Takes to the stage in New York for A Seriously Entertaining evening.
Read MorePlays with Matches: A Brief Meditation on Fire & Literature
This coming Monday, the House of SpeakEasy’s inaugural special guests — Andy Borowitz, Uma Thurman, Adam Gopnik, Susan Orlean, Simon Winchester and Dar Williams — will be stepping onto the stage at City Winery to ruminate on the theme “Plays with Matches”. I don’t know what they’re going to say. But it’s a fantastically potent […]
Read MoreCurtain Call: Meet Our Special Guests
It’s now just five days till our opening gala, “Plays with Matches”, and now seems a good time to bring all our hosts and special guests together. So, without further ado… Meet Andy Borowitz, our host, talking here about sex education and the difference between “continuously” and “continually” at the 92nd Street Y: “I guess I […]
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