Upcoming Events
November 2025
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT! TELEVISION ICONS – NONFICTION
This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. David Margolick’s When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy is the first definitive biography of the founding father of television comedy. At his peak in the 1950s, 20 million Americans tuned in to Caesar’s show weekly to watch his groundbreaking humor. Despite burning out quickly – a victim of exhaustion, addiction, and his own impossible standards – he remains TV’s first comic giant. Susan Morrison’s Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live takes readers behind the curtain to tell the story of how Lorne Michaels created and maintained the program that changed comedy forever.…
THE ELEMENT UNSEEN: SIMON WINCHESTER & CARL ZIMMER ON AIR & ITS MOVEMENT – NONFICTION
This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. The headlines are filled with news of hurricanes, tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires affecting America. And a report released in 2022 by atmospheric scientists at the University of Northern Illinois warned that winds are expected to steadily strengthen in the years ahead. In The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind, Simon Winchester explores how wind plays a part in our everyday lives. Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air – and thousands of living things.…
JONATHAN CAPEHART ON YET HERE I AM – NONFICTION
This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. In Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart shares powerful stories of identity, resilience, and self-discovery. From growing up between New Jersey and rural North Carolina without a father to embracing his voice as a gay Black man and rising through journalism, Capehart’s memoir is an inspiring account of identity, opportunity, and finding one’s voice along the way.…
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS: COMPLICATED JOURNEYS – NONFICTION
This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. Told in reverse order, The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother is a brave, compassionate celebration of the life and death of Jill Bialosky’s mother, Iris, and a window into the inextricable bond between mother and daughter. Starting with her burial and cognitive decline, Bialosky chronicles Iris’ often traumatic life, centering her mother as a resilient, multidimensional and fascinating woman. Molly Jong-Fast,…
ON ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA – NONFICTION
This is a free event that requires a ticket for entry. In Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Pamela S. Nadell traces nearly four centuries of antisemitism in the United States, from Peter Stuyvesant’s attempt to deport Jews in 1654 to tragic manifestations of antisemitism in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Pittsburgh. Chronicling prejudice, violence, and exclusion alongside Jewish resistance and resilience, Nadell reveals how antisemitism – and resistance to hatred – endures, representing a deeply rooted legacy. Joining Nadell in conversation is Lisa Hostein,…