Lectures and Visiting Authors
2011-12 Lecture Series
The APJCC’s Center for Jewish Life and Learning Visiting Authors and Distinguished Speakers
Schmooze with the Author: APJCC Book Club
2011-12 Schedule
Ever read an intriguing book and wished you could pick the author’s brain afterward? Have you ever finished a novel and longed to know what happens next to the character? Now is your chance to have these conversations. Read these amazing new books then come and schmooze and nosh with the author! All Schmooze with the Author events are at 7:00pm and are free to attend. For more information or to RSVP to an event, call 408.357.7411 or email jenessa@svjcc.org To download a printable flyer for any speaker, click on the speaker’s name.
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Tuesday, May 15th | 7:00pm
Set in Brooklyn’s Russian émigré community of Brighton Beach, Vaclav & Lena is the story of two ten-year-old emigrants from radically different worlds. Orphan Lena is introverted, troubled, and trapped in an unstable domestic situation. Vaclav’s burgeoning love of performing magic is indulged by hardworking parents pursuing the American Dream. Vivid, universally resonant, and highly original, Vaclav & Lena will establish Haley Tanner as one of our most exciting literary talents. Haley Tanner holds an MFA from the New School and a BA from Clark University. She lives in Brooklyn. This is her first novel.
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Tuesday, June 12th | 7:00pm
A finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature, this warm and exuberantly comic debut tells the story of the Molochniks, Russian-Jewish immigrants in suburban Connecticut. Daughters wed, houses flood, cultures clash…and the past has a way of emerging at the most inconvenient moments (and in the strangest ways.) Equal parts Jane Austen and Gogol, The Cosmopolitans casts a sharp and sympathetic eye on the foibles and rewards of family and life in America. Nadia Kalman is a 2011 Sami Rohr Prize Finalist. As a child, Nadia Kalman emigrated with her family from the former Soviet Union. Formerly a middle-school teacher and assistant principal, she now works as a writer-in-the-schools in New York City. She recently won the 2011 Moment Magazine Emerging Writers Award for Fiction.
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