The Talmud as Icon
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer specializes in the Talmud and other Rabbinic Literature. His work focuses on the Babylonian Talmud as a work of law and litera...
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Writing can spark the imagination, take you to far away places, and even bring about social change. In this collection, writers speak about their craft and read from selected works.
TV at The Pollock: West Wing and VEEP
Similarities between Veep and The West Wing, the perils of drawing TV plot lines from real political events, and the connection between the speed meta...
TV at the Pollock: Dick Wolf: Writing Television Past Present and Future
The narrative engine of Hill Street Blues, lessons in brevity from writing for advertising, and structural differences between Law & Order and Law & O...
An Evening with Alice Walker - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2020
An internationally celebrated American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist, Walker’s work has been translated into more than two dozen la...
Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue
In her new book, Ecopiety, Sarah McFarland Taylor offers an absorbing examination of the intersections of environmental sensibilities, contemporary ex...
An Evening with Pico Iyer - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2020
Pico Iyer was named “arguably the world’s greatest living travel writer,” by Outside, and is the author of over a dozen books and countless essays. Th...
An Evening with Sonia Nazario - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2020
Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction, imm...
The Liar with Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is a writer and Clinical Psychologist from Tel Aviv University. In her talk, she delves into the world of her newest novel, The L...
America’s Jewish Women
What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? Pamela Nadell, American University, talks about her book that looks at the history of Jewish women ...
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil with Susan Neiman - Holocaust Living History Workshop
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern T...