Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Fall/Winter 2024-25

Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Fall/Winter 2024-25

Author Visit: Catherine Newman, Sandwich (2024) In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Catherine Newman will discuss her instant New York Times bestseller, Sandwich (2024). Characteristic of her other publications, this novel concerns the ordinary, inevitable, and often messy daily struggles from the perspective of a woman sandwiched between her aging parents and grown children. The narrator is neurotic, sentimental, joyous, sorrowful, and slightly unhinged all at once. Funny observations about the constantly changing stages of life infuse the story that unfolds during the family's annual vacation in Cape Cod.

CATHERINE NEWMAN is the author of the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy , the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night , the kids’ craft book Stitch Camp , the best-selling how-to books for kids How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? , and the novels We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich . She writes the Substack newsletter Crone Sandwich and has been a regular contributor to the New York Times , Real Simple , O: The Oprah Magazine , Cupof Jo , and many other publications. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts where she is the academic department coordinator/secretary of the Creative Writing Center at Amherst College. ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022)”). Thursday, October 24 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12790 • $30

Author Visit: Alexandra Lapierre, Belle Greene, A Novel of America's Most Famous Librarian (2023)

Belle Greene by Alexandra Lapierre, translated from French by National Book Award finalist Tina Kover, tells the remarkable true story of the librarian Belle da Costa Greene. Though Black, Greene lived most of her life passing as white in furtherance of her education and career goals in a culturally segregated society. Flamboyant, brilliant, and stunningly beautiful, Greene became a sensation to both fashionable society and the male-dominated art world. Curator and collector of rare books and manuscripts for J.P. Morgan, Greene transformed the Morgan Library's exclusive private holdings into a public institution and served as its librarian and inaugural director until her retirement in 1948. Lapierre brings Greene's brilliant essence to life in her thoroughly researched tribute to an historical figure whose accomplishments, relationships, and singularity were as complex and fascinating as the collections she helped curate. Books will be available for sale and signing. This class is free of charge but seating is limited so advanced registration is required. Please consider a donation to Scarsdale Adult School at time of checkout.

ALEXANDRA LAPIERRE is a bestselling French novelist, short story writer, and biographer. She graduated from Sorbonne University and the University of Southern California. Among her other works of fiction that illuminate the lives of great women neglected by history is the international bestseller Artemisia (Vintage 2012). Tuesday, October 22 • 11:00am-12:15pm • Scarsdale Public Library • Course 12897 • $0 (free)

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