Please join us for a lively and entertaining discussion and book signing with Seattle’s own Karoline Morrison, author of Twilight of the Blondes.
“During the golden era of the 1950s, The Hollywood Reporter named Karoline Morrison “The Queen of the Sunset Strip.” She was the voluptuous “cigarette girl” at glamorous Ciros’ Restaurant, a showcase for beautiful women, notorious mafia figures, and Hollywood celebrities, a name-dropper hangout that was intoxicating to those fortunate enough to make it through its front doors….”-Neil Low, Author of Thick as Thieves.
Seattle drama major Karoline Morrison is cast into the maelstrom of Hollywood during the “Golden Age” of the 1950s and 1960s, when blondes ruled. At every turn, the values from her sheltered childhood on McNeil Island and her No ... Go to event
Preparing for Rosh Hashana:
Weighing our Values. What do We Stand For?
In preparation for the High Holidays, attend this provocative public conversation about how liberal Jews make decisions about their lives and effectively include Jewish perspectives in their decision-making.
Rabbis David Ellenson and Joy Levitt join the author, Rabbi David Teutsch for an interactive program in honor of the publication of the A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living. Book signing and reception follow the program.
Admission is free, and reservations are preferred.
When: Wednesday, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:00p
Where: The JCC in Manhattan, New York, NY
Price: FREE
Phone: (917) 403-3989
Liao Yiwu, poet, novelist, musician and documentarian, is one of the most outspoken writers in China today. Dubbed as the “Studs Terkel of China,” Liao is the author of The Corpse Walker, Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up, a stunning series of portraits of individuals ignored in history books and unacknowledged in the accounts of hte new China. His latest book, God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China, is a collection of seventeen stories based on interviews that the author conducted between 2002 and 2010.
This special evening with Liao Yiwu will include a performance with the xiao, or Chinese flute, a reading of his works, and a discussion with the public. Wen Huang, a journalist, author, and translator of Liao’ ... 
Second only to China in its economic miracle, India is undergoing one of the most momentous national transformations the world has ever seen. In India: A Portrait, Patrick French gives us an intimate biography of 1.2 billion people as their country is transforming in front of their eyes examines from a listless planned economy to capitalist and entrepreneurial powerhouse.
A book sale and signing will follow its launching at the Asia Society this month.
French is the author of several prize-winning books on South Asia including: Liberty or Death: India’s Journey to Independence and Division(1997); Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land (2003) and The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (2008). He is a contributor to publications including The Economist, Vanity F ... 
Culinary legend Adrià and renowned chef and advocate Andrés discuss the future of food and Adrià’s new book,The Family Meal.
José Andrés, the James Beard award-winning and critically acclaimed chef, welcomes longtime friend, mentor and culinary legend Ferran Adrià to Washington with an exclusive and intimate discussion at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium.
Andrés and Adrià, whose friendship began more than twenty years ago in Spain, will share stories and insights on their storied careers, Adrià’s future as one of the most creative chefs in history and now as the head of the El Bulli Foundation, as well as his new cookbook, The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adrià.
With introductions from the Washington Post’s Food and Travel editor, Joe Yonan, the event will include ... 
Book & Lyrics Lilah Kan
Music by Louis Stewart
Directed by Tisa Chang
SHANGHAI LIL’S will include performances on November 10-27, 2011 at West End Theatre 263 West 86th Street. Opening Night followed by presentation of the 6th Red Socks Award in memory of Lilah Kan
Pan Asian’s heartwarming musical that evokes the spirit of the 1940’s. Set in San Francisco’s nightclub circuit, a restaurant is transformed into a cabaret featuring songs, jokes, romance and dances despite the looming spectre of WWII and internment.
“SHANGHAI LIL’S is Pan Asian Rep’s tribute to that quintessential American theatrical form -the musical- and to Asian American pioneers on the cabaret circuit. Musicals embody the American Dream where everything good can happen: boy and girl meet, fall in ... 
On the day of the Chinese Moon Festival, September 22, 2010, MOCA launched Lee Mingwei’s artist project, The Travelers. Lee custom-made 100 blank notebooks for the project. Released into the world from MOCA, the books will travel around the world for one year. The books are passed from person to person like a chain letter, with each participant adding a personal story about “leaving home” at some point in their lives. Did they have a call to adventure? Did they leave willingly? Did they overcome setbacks? Did they ever return home? Each book becomes a “Traveler” in the project, who leaves the MOCA “home village” to embark on a long journey.
Participants are asked to send the books back to MOCA by the next Moon Festival, on September 12, 2011. The books that make it back to the museum, each ... 
THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Presents
AMERICAN UPRISING: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt
New York Times Best Seller
With Author Daniel Rasmussen
A native of Washington, DC and graduate of Harvard College, Rasmussen has always been passionate about investigative journalism. His book is based upon his college thesis that won Harvard’s top undergraduate academic honor.
When: Wednesday, November 9, 2011,
Time: 6:00 pm, Reception at 5:30 pm
Where: 46 Joy Street, Boston
Admission: $5 adults; $3 students and seniors
rsvp@maah.org
For more info click here.
Asia Society and Museum says…
Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world-and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses are routine.
Exploring the causes and consequences of the occupation, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom is a passionate call for the end of occupation, and for the right of self- determination for the Kashmiri people. Join authors Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra with invited guests for a discussion on Kashmir’s tragedy.
When: Friday Nov 11 (6:30–8:30pm)
Where: Asia Society,
725 Park Avenue, NY, NY
Contact: 212.288.6400
Cost: $10 Asia Society Members; $12 seniors and students w/ID; ... 
Miami Dade College presents the 28th edition of theMiami Book Fair International from November 13th to 20th,2011. As in previous years, the Cultural Services of the French Consulate, in partnership with the Canadian Consulate, is organizing the presence of francophone authors at the Miami Book Fair International on November 18th and 19th.
For the fair’s 28th edition, the French Cultural Services has invited author of graphic novels, Cyril Pedrosa, who will present his novel “Three Shadows”, translated in English and in Spanish, and youth literature author, Guillaume Guéraud, in residence in Miami for one month.
During his stay, Guillaume Guéraud will give several literature workshops in the classrooms of the French programs in Miami-Dade Public Schools and at the French Heritage Language P ... 
