How Should a (Jewish) Person Be?

Unpacking the Book: Jewish Writers in Conversation

Talk

Thursday, May 9, 2019
7 – 8:30 pm
Scheuer Auditorium

Hear author Dani Shapiro explore how we become who we are, how Judaism shapes how we think about our identity, and society's expectations on female artists and Jewish women in conversation with Stephanie Butnick, Tablet Magazine and the Unorthodox podcast.

Dani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Inheritance, Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White  and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist, Shapiro’s short fiction, essays, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the op-ed pages of The New York Times, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, the New School, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Co-presented with the Jewish Book Council, in partnership with Tablet Magazine.

 Free with RSVP; Includes Museum Admission