Showing results by publisher "Symphony Space" in Biographies & Memoirs
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Thalia Book Club: Jamaica Kincaid, 'See Now Then'
- By: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrated by: Ian Frazier
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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The author of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother delves into her long-awaited new novel about a complicated modern family, featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children, Heracles and Persephone, who live in the Shirley Jackson house in Vermont. Kincaid discusses her novel with her old friend Ian Frazier ( The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days).
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Thalia Book Club: Jamaica Kincaid, 'See Now Then'
- Narrated by: Ian Frazier
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 17-02-2014
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Robin Desser, Francesca Choy-Kee
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents her newest novel Americanah, a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home.
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Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
- Narrated by: Robin Desser, Francesca Choy-Kee
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-02-2014
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club Special Event: Salman Rushdie, 'Joseph Anton: A Memoir'
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: John Freeman, Colum McCann
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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The author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses talks with Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) about his long-anticipated, enthralling and provocative new memoir of his exile under the fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989.
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Thalia Book Club Special Event: Salman Rushdie, 'Joseph Anton: A Memoir'
- Narrated by: John Freeman, Colum McCann
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-02-2014
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Brian Jacques' Redwall Series
- By: Brian Jacques
- Narrated by: Jon Scieszka
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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A rollicking conversation between British author Brian Jacques and Jon Scieszka about the newest installment in Jacques' beloved Redwall series, Eulalia!. Redwall's heroes are peace-loving mice, moles, shrews, squirrels, and their friends who exhibit human characteristics in a medieval setting. They face the dark side of the animal world, represented by rats, weasels, stoats, foxes, and their villain allies, in the day-to-day struggle of good versus evil.
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Brian Jacques' Redwall Series
- Narrated by: Jon Scieszka
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2008
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
- By: Aimee Bender
- Narrated by: Lillo Way
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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The author of An Invisible Sign of My Own, whose work has been presented at Selected Shorts performances, discusses her second novel, a lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. She is interviewed by Heidi Julavits (novelist and co-editor of The Believer). A selection is performed by Lillo Way.
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Thalia Book Club: Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
- Narrated by: Lillo Way
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2011
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: On Beauty with Author Zadie Smith
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Laura Miller
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Author Zadie Smith discusses her much-anticipated third novel, On Beauty. Set on both sides of the Atlantic, the novel follows the chain of events when the son of a liberal British academic family falls in love with the daughter of an American right-wing icon. A brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, and the intersection of the personal and political, the book is also very funny indeed. Interviewed by Laura Miller of salon.com.
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Thalia Book Club: On Beauty with Author Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Laura Miller
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-05-2006
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Pseudonymous Bosch's This Isn't What It Looks Like
- By: Pseudonymous Bosch
- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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The mysterious author of the New York Times best-selling book The Name of This Book is Secret, as well as the other dangerous and daring adventures in the hugely popular The Secret series makes a rare appearance to talk with Matthew Cody ( Powerless) about the latest installment. Performance playlist: Reading by the Author followed by a conversation with Pseudonymous Bosch and Matthew Cody.
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Pseudonymous Bosch's This Isn't What It Looks Like
- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2011
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Jon Scieszka's 'Robot Zot'
- By: Jon Scieszka
- Narrated by: Lisa Von Drasek
- Length: 1 hr
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The always engaging and hilarious author of the hit series The Time Warp Trio and the modern classic The Stinky Cheese Man, who is also the first national Ambassador for Children's Literature, talks about his latest book with Lisa Von Drasek (Children's Librarian at the Bank Street School for Children).
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Jon Scieszka's 'Robot Zot'
- Narrated by: Lisa Von Drasek
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 22-02-2011
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
- By: Roger Angell
- Narrated by: Mark Singer
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Beloved author Roger Angell discusses his memoir, which includes reflections on his family and growing up that have recently appeared in The New Yorker, with Mark Singer, staff writer for The New Yorker.
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Thalia Book Club: Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
- Narrated by: Mark Singer
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2006
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Nicole Krauss' 'Great House'
- By: Nicole Krauss
- Narrated by: Deborah Treisman
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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A large wooden desk with many drawers is at the mysterious center of Krauss' deeply engrossing new novel of interwoven lives. The author of the best-selling The History of Love discusses her 2010 National Book Award nominated book, with Deborah Treisman (fiction editor at The New Yorker). An excerpt will be performed by Lois Smith. Performance playlist: Reading by Lois Smith, conversation between Nicole Krauss and Deborah Treisman, and a discussion with the audience.
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Thalia Book Club: Nicole Krauss' 'Great House'
- Narrated by: Deborah Treisman
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2011
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: The Street by Ann Petry
- By: Ann Petry
- Narrated by: Sapphire, Sharifa Rhodes- Pitts, Sonia Manzano, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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Sapphire ( Push), Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts ( Harlem Is Nowhere), and actress Sonia Manzano ( The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano) discuss the gritty, emotional 1946 classic set in Harlem. Actress Roslyn Ruff ( The Piano Lesson; The Help) will read an excerpt.
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Thalia Book Club: The Street by Ann Petry
- Narrated by: Sapphire, Sharifa Rhodes- Pitts, Sonia Manzano, Roslyn Ruff
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 31-07-2013
- Language: English
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Selected Shorts
- Pets!
- By: Gail Godwin, Ana Menendez, Robertson Davies, and others
- Narrated by: Jane Curtin, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Keating
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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The cast of characters in this compilation is a menagerie of animals: cats, dogs, birds, even a dragon - and their owners. These stories look at the myriad of experiences, and adventures, that pet ownership can bring. Join a medieval scholar who discovers that not all mythical creatures are extinct, stalk the night with the Cat of Frankenstein, kick that caffeine habit with a class of kindergartners, dance along with a divorcée and her dog, and more!
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Selected Shorts
- Pets!
- Narrated by: Jane Curtin, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Keating
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2007
- Language: English
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Zombies vs. Unicorns
- By: Libba Bray, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maureen Johnson, and others
- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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An all-star line-up of children’s book authors, including Holly Black, Justine Larbalestier, Libba Bray, and Maureen Johnson, debate the question, “Which are better: zombies or unicorns?”
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Zombies vs. Unicorns
- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2011
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's 'Brother, I'm Dying'
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Jonathan Demme
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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Edwidge Danticat discusses her deeply personal new memoir, a National Book Award finalist for 2007, with her friend, director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs).
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Thalia Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's 'Brother, I'm Dying'
- Narrated by: Jonathan Demme
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2008
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's 'Room'
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Michael Cunningham
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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Emma Donoghue discusses her extraordinary new novel with author Michael Cunningham ( The Hours and By Nightfall). This wondrous book is told from the point of view of a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in an 11-by-11 foot room.
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Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's 'Room'
- Narrated by: Michael Cunningham
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2011
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of a Biographer
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- By: James Atlas, Edmund Morris, Stacy Schiff
- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Symphony Space invited three renowned biographers, James Atlas, Edmund Morris, and Stacy Schiff, to reveal the fascinating, all-absorbing process of researching and writing another person's life story. The conversation delved deeply into the challenges the authors encountered and the pleasures they enjoyed in writing the lives of Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Vera Nabakov, and Saul Bellow, as well as the difficulty of getting past the "unreliable narrator".
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The Autobiography of a Biographer
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- Narrated by: Symphony Space
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2009
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Chast! Menaker! Trillin!
- By: Roz Chast, Calvin Trillin, Daniel Menaker
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik, Jane Curtin, Reg Rogers
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Roz Chast brings her brilliant, hilarious artwork to No Fair! No Fair! and Other Jolly Poems of Childhood by Calvin Trillin and The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense by Daniel Menaker, as well as her own memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. Join us for a conversation moderated by Adam Gopnik ( The New Yorker) between the artist and authors, plus readings by Jane Curtin and Reg Rogers ( The Knick).
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Thalia Book Club: Chast! Menaker! Trillin!
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik, Jane Curtin, Reg Rogers
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2017
- Language: English
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