This week’s Booked feature is heavy on nonfiction, but there is something for everyone–from science lovers to foodies to activists.
Tonight, NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting program brings in author and journalist Robin Marantz Henig for a discussion about her most recent New York Times Magazine cover story, “Understanding the Anxious Mind”. Henig has written eight books, including The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel. The talk, at 20 Cooper Square, starts at 6 pm and is free.
On Wednesday, head over to Housing Works Cafe for Word of Mouth: Culinary Microhistory, with Trevor Corson (The Story of Sushi), David Sax (Save the Deli), Anne Mendelson (Milk) and Benjamin Wallace (The Billionaire’s Vinegar). They’ll be discussing their food-writer obsessions. This event is also free, and it starts at 7 pm.
If food-writing isn’t serious enough for you, head up to Columbia’s Low Library rotunda for a discussion on Free Speech in the Globalized World, with Salman Rushdie, Columbia president Lee Bollinger, professor Michael Schudson, and WaPo columnist David Ignatius. The event, also on Wednesday, is free and open to the public, but you have to register online to attend.
On Thursday, check out Steamboat: A literary humor series, hosted by Bob Powers and Jason Reich, and featuring Tao Lin (Shoplifting from American Apparel) Jen Miller (Live Nude Elf), and Brian Sack (In the Event of My Untimely Demise). This is at the Greenlight bookstore, in Brooklyn, and it starts at 7:30.
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