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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by Michelle Dean
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Noon - 1:00 pm
Free and open to all
Lunch will be served for those attending in-person
Location: In-Person and virtual
Please register here for location and Zoom details and to provide a count for catering
The ten women―Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm―who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century.
Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is the exhilarating story of ten brilliant women who used the power of their pens to carve out space for themselves in a world where men wrote the rules. It serves as an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.
Richard Fox will lead the discussion during National Friends of the Library week in October.
Join us for a discussion of shared intellectual and cultural history - and enjoy lunch with Friends of the Library.
Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/y56a5FxfF6