FALL 2007
Forum
An Evening with the Mitford Sisters, featuring special guest Charlotte Mosley
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Morgan Entrekin on Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter House 5
Preview Club
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin
SPRING 2007
Spring Forum on Philanthropy
Patty Stonesifer, Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in conversation with noted journalist Mike Kinsley
 View photos from the event
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
A.M. Homes on Richard Yates's short stories from The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Preview Club
Michael Korda, Ike: An American Hero
FALL 2006
Behind-the-Scenes
Truman Capote
Gerald Clarke
Gay Talese
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
James Salter on The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
Preview Club
Simon Schama, The Power of Art
SPRING 2006
Behind-the-Scenes
The Juilliard School, 1905-2005: Celebrating 100 Years
Jane Gottlieb
Patti LuPone
Forum
The Right Address: Power, Property, Personalities
Louis Auchincloss
Thomas Beller
Candace Bushnell
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Nick McDonell
Preview Club
Madeleine Albright, The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
FALL 2005
Forum
Back on the Road: The Beat Generation in Vogue Again
A.M. Homes
Lewis Lapham
Sterling Lord
Featured a reading by Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton, and Jonathan Mark Sherman
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Tom Wolfe on John O'Hara's BUtterfield 8
Preview Club
James Shapiro, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
SPRING 2005
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Olivier Bernier on Honore de Balzac's Pere Goriot
Preview Club
Jennet Conant, 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
FALL 2004
Behind-the-Scenes
The Balanchine I've Known
Jacques d'Amboise
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Pete Hamill on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote
Preview Club
Robert MacNeil, Do You Speak American?
Joined by John Simon and Jesse Sheidlower
SPRING 2004
Forum
An Evening with Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Susan Cheever on Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Preview Club
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
FALL 2003
Behind-the-Scenes
Double Helix: The Story of Two Lives
James Watson
Forum
Russia Engages the World: A 21st-Century Perspective
Eliot Borenstein
Stephen Cohen
Nina Khrushcheva
Robert MacNeil
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Olivier Bernier on Jane Austen's Emma
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
George Plimpton, Norris Church Mailer, and Terry Quinn perform "One Sunday at the Fitzgeralds"
Preview Club
Arthur Gelb, City Room
SPRING 2003
Forum
50th Anniversary of The Paris Review
Robert Silvers
George Plimpton
Paul Auster
Joanna Scott
Lenox and Astor Reading Group
Jane Stanton Hitchcock on Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
Preview Club
Anne Applebaum, GULAG, A History
FALL 2002
Forum
Edible Contents
Colman Andrews
Ariane Batterberry
Michael Batterberry
William Grimes
Waldy Malouf
Drew Nieporent
Preview Club
Nicholas A. Basbanes, Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book-Hunter in the Twenty-First Century
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