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Making Magic From Metal
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The Victorian Society of America has awarded Suzanne Hinman’s The Grandest Madison Square Garden one of three 2020 Victorian Society in America Book Awards. This award recognize scholarship that contributes to the understanding of America during the Victorian Era. The book award committee was most impressed by the quality of the scholarship. Recent praise . . . “Hinman uses the construction of the second Madison Square Garden as an armature upon which to hang a depiction of the Gilded Age.”—The Washington Post
Lance Pettitt’s The Last Bohemian: Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British Cinema was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. “Pettitt’s heartfelt admiration for his subject shines through, and with good reason.”—Times Literary Supplement
Marcia Lynx Qualey, author, translator, and editor of ArabLit, moderated a conversation on the art and challenge of carrying literature from the edge of the Arab world across linguistic and geographical boundaries. Participants: Marilyn Booth, translator of Honey Hunger, winner of the 2025 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Zia Ahmed, translator of The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman Bushra Khalfan, author of Dilshad, shortlisted for the 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Alan Haft discusses Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano. He vividly describes the powerful story of 16-year-old Harry Haft’s survival in the Nazi concentration camps, a survival dependent on his ability to fight and win concentration camp boxing matches. Haft’s story is now a major motion picture. View book talk Alan Scott Haft is the eldest son of Harry Haft. He graduated from Queens College and received his J.D. from the University of Miami Law School.
Chuck D’Imperio welcomes you into his home for our first virtual book talk on his latest book Open House: 35 Historic Upstate New York Homes. Sit back, relax, and tour some of Upstate New York’s most famous and “off the beaten path” homes from the comfort of your home. View book talk Chuck D’Imperio is the author of several books on Upstate New York including: Unknown Museums of Upstate New York A Taste of Upstate New York
“Khayyat’s monograph is refreshing in its unorthodox and cross-disciplinary choice of objects and methodological approach.” Now available, War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat examines the aesthetics of ruination and resistance in contemporary Lebanese cultural productions. Read the full review