Larchmont Library Announces ONE BOOK-ONE COMMUNITY Lecture Serie

As part of the ONE BOOK – ONE COMMUNITY reading initiative taking place throughout April, the Larchmont Public Library is announcing the following lectures and discussions. All lectures in the series are free to attend.

1960’s: The Birth of Modern Media with Evan Weiner

Thursday, April 12 at 7:00pm

Join award-winning sports journalist Even Weiner, for this in-depth look at how the media – especially television – came into its own in the 1960s. From the first of the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the scathing assessment of Vietnam by Walter Cronkite, Weiner explores how the media matured. You’ll learn how Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy laid the groundwork. The foundation for the media we have today can be traced to these events and these important figures. Veteran journalist Evan Weiner, has appeared on programs on the former WBIS, Channel 31 (New York, N.Y.), RNN (New York), the History Channel with Al Michaels and Frank Deford, as well as ABCNews Now's Politics Live TV show with Sam Donaldson, CN8's sports program and the BBC Radio Documentary Sports and Sponsorship, MSNBC-TV and NewsMax. He has written six books about the business and politics of sports.

What Do We Know About Vietnam? Discussion series with Catherine Wald

Fridays, April 13 & 27 from 10:00am to 11:30am

Online registration required

Using selected short readings from the book The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers, edited by Wayne Karlin, Le Minh Khue and Truong Vu, Catherine Wald will focus on what can stories teach us about a war whose wounds persist a half-century later in the American and Vietnamese consciousness. In this discussion, Wald will lead an examination of our memories and perceptions by reading fiction by writers from both cultures. As one of the book’s editors says, “In the commonality of loss and pain, defeat and occasional triumph that make up all good stories, we see each other’s human faces, emerging from the leaves of the jungle canopy, from the blackness of the sky.” Co-Sponsored by the Women’s Club of Larchmont. Books are available in the library now.

• April 13 Readings:
• April 27 Readings:

Introduction – The American Blues – Wandering Souls

The Pugilist at Rest – Please Don’t Knock on My Door – The Key - Twilight

1968: The Year That Rocked the World - Discussion with Ann Hitchings

Wednesday, April 18 from 10:00am to 11:30am

Join US History teacher Ann Hitchings for this in-depth discussion of 1968: The Year That Rocked the World, By Mark Kurlansky. The book is central to the ONE BOOK – ONE COMMUNITY reading initiative throughout April. The discussion will consider these questions and more: Were you alive in 1968? If so, how did your “physical” (geographic) location affect your “figurative” (political, economic, social/cultural) location? The themes of silence upended and truth revealed are woven throughout the book. These changes sometimes came with violence, sometimes with passive resistance and sometimes with both. Additional questions to consider include “If you had to choose one of Kurlansky’s discussions of silence and truth, which would you say was the one that made 1968 “the year that rocked the world? Which would you say has had the longest lasting impact?” Co-sponsored by Woman’s Club of Larchmont