Thursday, January 24, 2008

More events this spring

This spring is jam-packed with great events in our area. Get out your calendars and make your plans early!

2/9-2/15: Tibetan monks from Namgyal Monastery (the Dalai Lama's official monastery in North America) will build a sand mandala in the main floor of the TCNJ library. Viewing hours are from approximately 9:30-12 and 1:30-5.

3/25: Edwidge Danticat, novelist and memoirist, will deliver the Toni Morrison lecture at Princeton, 8 PM, Richardson Auditorium

3/26: Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart and many other books, in conversation with K. Anthony Appiah, 6 PM, Nassau Presbyterian Church (in Princeton)

4/3: Gerald Stern, one of America's most distinguished poets, Master Class in Poetry, Library Auditorium, TCNJ, at 4:30 PM

Friday, January 11, 2008

Princeton events this spring

Princeton's got a great schedule this season. Some highlights:

2/20: George Saunders and Natasha Trethewey

3/13: Amy Hempel and Jennifer Egan (both former TCNJ readers!)

03/26: Claire Messud and Edward Hirsch

04/09: Gary Shteyngart and Rick Moody

All on Wednesdays, 4:30 PM, in the James Stewart Theater at 185 Nassau Street (rear entrance).