May 2012
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From the Poetry Center Archive: Arthur Miller reads from Death of a Salesman at 92Y in February of 1955
As its season finale on May 23, 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center will present “On Arthur Miller: A Playwrights’ Conversation”. With a revival of Death of a Salesman now running on Broadway, Tony Kushner leads a group of his contemporaries—Oskar Eustis, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Rinne Groff and Richard...
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Secrets of the New York Times op-ed pages... →
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Presumably the 22 people who paid $29 this year to hear the annual talk, hosted by Hall and New York Times Letters page editor Thomas Feyer, were not there because they planned to make a career out of writing op-ed pieces.
Instead, the crowd that showed up in a large classroom off the building’s main entrance at the corner of 92 Street and Lexington Avenue appeared to be split...
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In case you’re looking for an afternoon dosage of cute, we pulled together a few video clips from our participation in the Guinness World Record™ setting event, World’s Largest Swimming Lesson, where we provided a free swim lesson to kids, and the result speaks for itself. We plan to participate in the event this year on Thursday June 14, and your child can also be a part of the fun...
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Fashion Icon Tom Ford on Same-Sex Marriage: It’s the Federal Government, Cupid
While a majority of voters in North Carolina supported a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, designer Tom Ford spoke at 92Y last night for Fern Mallis’s Fashion Icon series and offered his opinions on the subject.
While he is openly gay, he “hates that word” and does not wish to...
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Shaquille O’Neil did not get that name in the Congo if you know what I’m talking...
– This past monday at the 92nd Street Y, I watched a great conversation unfold between Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Ilan Stavans.
Salient facts learned:
‘Only’ 450,000 of 11.2 million Africans stolen over to the New World actually came to the present-day United States.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is 56%...
Remember the time you met Harper Lee outside of...
The official recipient of this year’s Harper Lee Award was Fannie Flagg, a TV personality (she co-hosted Candid Camera with Alan Funt and was a regular on the Match Game) who began writing fiction in the 80s. She described an accidental encounter she had with Lee.
In 1985 Flagg was living in a “tragic” New York apartment on the Upper West Side and trying to write a novel. It...
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