Brooklyn By The Book
Click here to join the BBTB Mailing list! Congregation Beth Elohim and Community Bookstore, two historic Brooklyn institutions, have joined forces to offer a monthly reading and lecture series at Congregation Beth Elohim. The Brooklyn by the Book events will provoke discussion, celebrate the life of the mind, and tap into the rich culture of writing and reading in Park Slope and the broader community of Brownstone Brooklyn. Programming will focus primarily on current events, literary fiction and other topics of interest to our audience. Park Slope is one of the nation’s premiere literary communities, and this is the first large-scale venue for all the passionate readers in the area to come meet and hear from their favorite authors.
Read about us in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Tuesday, May 28th, 7:30 pm The Slippage and A Dual Inheritance
co-sponsored by One Story
Ben Greenman and Joanna Hershon
In Ben Greenman’s The Slippage, things take a bizarre turn as a suburban childless couple confronts their future, and in Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance, two Harvard men struggle with class and privilege, ambition and betrayal, as they navigate their friendship through the decades. Join us for readings and conversation moderated by editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine Alana Newhouse.
Wednesday, June 12th, 7:30 pm
The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud in conversation with Michael Ravitch
 What happens when a women compromises her dreams and ambitions for a life she never expected or desired? In her fifth book, The Woman Upstairs, award-winning novelist Claire Messud explores the pain and anger of elementary school teacher Nora Eldridge, a good neighbor and friend who keeps finding herself on the fringe of others’ accomplishments as she fervently searches for a sense of self. Claire will be interviewed by Michael Ravitch, author and CBE Trustee. Past Events:
Thursday, Sept.13, Motherland, Amy Sohn in Conversation with Lisa Miller Wednesday, Oct. 24, Jerusalem Cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi in Coversation with Rozanne Gold
Thursday, Nov. 1, Winter Journal, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo
Thursday, Nov. 15, Dearie, Bob Spitz in Conversation with Melissa Clark
Wednesday, Nov. 28, Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame,Co-Editors Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy in Conversation with Kevin Arnovitz and Chad Millman
Dec. 3, When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person, Harold S. Kushner in conversation with Rabbi Andy Bachman
Thursday, Dec. 6, Happier at Home, Gretchen Rubin in Conversation with Jodi Kantor
January 10th, 2013, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, Andrew Solomon in coversation with Laurie Muchnick, Books Editor at Bloomberg News March 14th, 7:30 pm Two Generations of Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built, Mark Russ Federman, Josh Russ Tupper and Niki RussFederman in Conversation with Rabbi Andy Bachman
March 21st, 2013 The Bronfman Haggadah, Edgar M. Bronfman and Jan Aronson in Conversation with Rabbi Andy Bachman, followed by a Passover wine and gefilte fish tasting
April 3rd, 2013, The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout in conversation with Laurie Muchnick April 16, 2013 Life After Life, Kate Atkinson in Conversation with Ezra Goldstein May 9th, 2013, Where'd You Go Bernadette, Maria Semple in Conversation with Judy Clain Contacts Cindy Greenberg, Congregation Beth Elohim (Program Director): cgreenberg@cbebk.org
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