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FOL's Bogen Memorial Lecture to Feature Authors Lagnado and Aciman

The Friends of the Library invites you to hear noted authors Lucette Lagnado and Andre Aciman discuss how the Egypt of their youth informs their work at the annual Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Lecture on Wednesday April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the library's Lapham Room.  Lagnado is an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal and award-winning memoirist of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and its newly published sequel, The Arrogant Years. Aciman is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Among his works are the novel Call Me by Your Name, the memoir Out of Egypt, and the new Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere

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