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October 2 Tamara Kreinin & Barbara Camens Girls' Night out:Celebrating the Power of Women's Groups
Barbara Camens received her law degree cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Law Review; Order of the Coif; J.D. 1982).
Girl's Night Out: Celebrating Women's Groups Across America focuses on a vibrant, important phenomenon in women's lives: women's groups. Profiling an inspiring selection of fifteen groups from all around the U. S. and across a wide range of ages, Girl's Night Out reveals the powerful role these groups play in so many lives.Each chapter tells the story of one group, recounting how the women got together, how the group has evolved over time, and recalling both their best and hardest times together.In the concluding chapter, Camens and Krenin share tips about how to create a successful group. Girls Night Out has become a powerful phenomenon of our time, Women's groups tell us to spend more time with our female friends, the groups are powerful, and they are enduring.
Barbara Camens received her law degree cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School
October 3 Anthony Lane Nobody's Perfect:Writings from The New Yorker
In almost ten years as a critic for The New Yorker, Lane has not only written an indispensable column on the latest movie releases, great and small. He has also turned his gaze upon subjects as various as Evelyn Waugh, Shakespeare, the glory of cookbooks, and the fine art of the obituary.rguably the most gifted reviewer at work today, Anthony Lane sets the standard�as a reader, as a critic, and as an observer of life. Nobody's Perfect is a must for fans old and new.Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. He lives in London.
October 7 Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby 7:00 p.m. author of Choke and The Fight Club
>From the author of The New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a scintillating, cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the supernatural thriller for our times.With Lullaby, Palahniuk offers his own twisted take on the supernatural thriller, complete with houses that drip blood, dead babies that cry out in the night, and powerful spells capable of transforming reality as we now know it. While constructing a gripping, tremendously entertaining page-turner, he offers a disturbing commentary about our current fears regarding privacy, surveillance, the media, and mind control. Big Brother is very much alive and well here - but in a form that is worlds away from anything George Orwell and his generation envisioned.As thought provoking as it is thrilling, as disturbing as it is funny, Lullaby is another mesmerizing fantasia from a novelist with keen insight into current American culture- the various fears, compulsions, and anxieties born of it.
October 9, Nathanial Popkin Song of the City , 7:00p.m.
Wonderful,lyrical ode to our city includes a piece about the Neighbors against Mcpentrification fight against Mcdonalds.
MA City Planning University of Pennsylvania
