Come for Cocktails and Conversation with Dahlia Lithwick

On Thursday, January 19th join the New Rochelle Public Library Foundation virtually for Cocktails & Conversation with Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal correspondents. Called “whipsmart and wickedly acerbic,” Lithwick is the host of the Amicus podcast as well as a Senior Editor at Slate.com, a frequent MSNBC contributor and the author of the instant New York Times best seller Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, chosen as one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022.

This Cocktails & Conversation event will take place via Zoom at 7 pm. Tickets cost $20; proceeds benefit the non-profit NRPL Foundation. Tickets are available at www.nrplfoundation.org or by mail with a check payable to NRPLF sent to New Rochelle Public Library Foundation, 1 Library Plaza, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Participants will receive a Zoom link and the recipe for a signature cocktail to make – and enjoy – at home. (Participants can even dress up in Dahlia’s tee shirts available at https://www.dahlialithwick.com/shop)

Cocktails & Conversation is one of the NRPL Foundation’s signature events, designed to bring book lovers together. The evenings feature authors in a discussion moderated by Prof. Amy Bass, Ph.D., NRPL Foundation Board Member, historian and acclaimed author (One Goal: A Coach, A Team and the Game That Brought A Divided Town Together).

About Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia Lithwick is a regular contributor at MSNBC and senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, has been writing their "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. She is host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. In 2018, Lithwick received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She has been twice awarded an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October, 2018. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Awards. In 2021 she won a Gracie Award for Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG, which featured the last in-person audio interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Ms. Lithwick earned her BA in English from Yale University and her JD degree from Stanford University. She is co-author of Me Versus Everybody (Workman Press, 2006) (with Brandt Goldstein) and of I Will Sing Life (Little, Brown 1992) (with Larry Berger). Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies including Jewish Jocks (2012), What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013), About What was Lost (2006); A Good Quarrel (2009); Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare (2009); and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (2008).

About Lady Justice

With an appealing mix of her trademark wit, awe, and outrage, LADY JUSTICE by Dahlia Lithwick (Penguin Press) portrays the brave and brilliant women lawyers fighting for justice in this moment. It’s a hopeful and inspiring book for readers desperately in need of heroes, when Dobbs and other recent rulings from the Supreme Court prove that Trump’s legal legacy is far from over. Some of extraordinary women that Lithwick highlights are already well known for their courage—Stacey Abrams and Sally Yates—but these pages include others, like Brigitte Amiri, the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, who in 2017 defended abortion rights on behalf of immigrant minors in detention; Becca Heller, the human rights attorney who organized lawyers at the airport to fight the Muslim ban; and Robbie Kaplan, who took on the Charlottesville Nazis.

“Whipsmart and wickedly acerbic, Lithwick shines a reassuring light on the essential interconnectivity between women and the law and champions the vital role women lawyers must continue to play if American democracy is to persevere.”— Booklist (starred review)

“Lithwick’s writing is friendly to lay readers and marked by her trademark pithy wit and an endearing faith in the promise of the legal system. ‘Women plus law equals magic,’ she concludes . . . Required reading for this post-Dobbs world.” — Kirkus (starred review)

“Lady Justice is a gripping, moving, dramatic account of people at their best and worst and how they shaped the republic over the last five years. No one brings writing about the law to life like Dahlia Lithwick with her combination of deep knowledge, strong reporting, and pithy wit.”—Rebecca Solnit

“Through Lithwick’s compelling storytelling, we experience her subjects’ passion for a more just world and applaud their strategies for how to get there. And we cannot help but want to join them in the cause.” —Anita Hill, law professor and author of Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Follow Dahlia Lithwick on Twitter: @DahliaLithwick and her website: https://www.dahlialithwick.com...