Category: Events

September 14, 2011

Richard Locke at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Richard Locke, author of the just-published Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels, will be moderating what sounds like will be a great panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival at 10:00 A.M.: Kids on the Skids Kevin...

September 13, 2011

Clarence Taylor at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Continuing our feature on Columbia University Press authors, who will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, we look at Clarence Taylor’s new book Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union. Reds...

September 12, 2011

Hillary Chute at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Four different Columbia University Press authors will be participating in the upcoming Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 18th. The festival has become one of the major literary events in New York City and one of the largest of its...

May 20, 2011

Kenneth Goldsmith to appear at the NYPL for a Believer event.

Fresh off his reading at the White House, Kenneth Goldsmith, author of the forthcoming Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, will join Dick Cavett, Lorin Stein and others tomorrow at 1 pm for an event at the New...

May 13, 2011

Kenneth Goldsmtih on Uncreative Writing at Pennsylvania Avenue

At the risk of being uncreative ourselves, we are offering a second post on Kenneth Goldsmith and Billy Collins’s events at the White House. (Hey, how often do you have an author read at the White House? Let alone two?)...

May 11, 2011

Despite Sarah Palin's Protestations Kenneth Goldsmith to Read at White House

Just a reminder that Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, will be reading tonight at 7:00 pm at the White House for a special event celebrating American poetry. The event will be streamed live...

May 6, 2011

Mr. Goldsmith Goes to Washington

We were very excited to hear that Kenneth Goldsmith, author of the forthcoming Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age has been invited to read at the White House on Thursday, May 11 beginning at 7:00 pm! The event,...

February 2, 2011

Grzegorz W. Kolodko on Tour for Truth, Errors, and Lies

             Tonight Grzegorz W. Kolodko will be discussing his new book Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World at the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Tonight’s event is part of speaking tour Kolodko will...

December 3, 2010

Hillary L. Chute and Lynda Barry to discuss Graphic Women

Hillary L. Chute, author of the newly published Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics will be participating in a roundtable discussion on the art of the graphic novel this Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM at the Philoctetes...

October 25, 2010

Upcoming Events with Columbia University Press Authors

The following are some events with Columbia University Press authors for this week. For more information on author events: On Monday, October 25 6:30 pm, Steven Cohen will discuss his book Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the...

October 6, 2010

James Fleming and Fixing the Sky at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

For those in the Washington D.C. area, please come out to see James Fleming discuss his book Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at 10:30 am. For...

September 24, 2010

Dosse on Deleuze and Guattari

Francois Dosse, author of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives, has been touring the country discussing the book. To packed houses at NYU, Columbia, and Harvard, Dosse has been discussing the somewhat unlikely partnership that had a profound effect...