Category: Author Events

May 5, 2008

Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language by John T. Hamilton event at Book Culture

In Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language John Hamilton investigates the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation and create a crisis of language. Hamilton traces the linkage of music and...

April 30, 2008

Barbara Mensch, "South Street," and the Fulton Fish Market

In the posting Loaders, Lumpers and the Smell of Fish the New York Times blog the “City Room” writes about South Street by Barbara Mensch. The post coincides with a new exhibition of Barbara Mensch’s photographs of the Fulton Fish...

April 25, 2008

Party at the Tribeca Film Festival!

Join Wallflower Press and Columbia University Press for a party to celebrate the official North American launch of the TCM International Film Guide 2008 and Film & Festivals magazine during the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday, April 29th. Frances Ford...

April 18, 2008

Fear of Freedom by Carlo Levi: An Event at the Italian Academy

While in exile during the Second World War, Carlo Levi, the famous painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family wrote the canonical essay “Of Fear and Freedom,” which was later published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux and in...

April 10, 2008

Hervé This heads to Canada April 27-May 2

Calling all Canadian scientists, chefs, and those with curious minds—Hervé This, the founder of molecular gastronomy travels to Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa to promote his new book, Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking, later this month. He’ll appear at...

April 7, 2008

Houston Baker on Martin Luther King

This past weekend on the occasion of the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, many commentators explored the legacy on Martin Luther King. In his new book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era,...

March 24, 2008

Margaretta Jolly in New York City to talk about women’s letters

From March 26 to 31 Margaretta Jolly will be in New York City to discuss her new book, In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism. You can see the full list of all author events, including Margaretta Jolly’s, on...

February 5, 2008

Author Events for the Week of Feb 4

From Hollywood’s Censor to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes to media depictions of women in the Iraq War, there are several opportunities to hear a Columbia University Press author. On Tuesday, February 5 at 6:00 pm, James Martel will discuss...

January 31, 2008

Herve This Heads West

Considered by many to be the father of the molecular gastronomy movement, Hervé This has been changing the way the world approaches cooking; bringing a scientific sensibility to bear on the common problems all cooks face. His books Molecular Gastronomy...