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
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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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