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I Love New York in June: Ian Frazier and Bill McKibben at the Y

Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: 92nd Street Y, Bill McKibben, books, environment, events, humor, Ian Frazier, James Thurber, Leonard Lopate, nonfiction, Shouts & Murmurs

Martin Schneider writes:

I was just riffling through my inbox (such a tactile metaphor), and the following event at the 92nd Street Y jumped out at me. From the Y's latest press release:

Tuesday, June 10, 8:15 pm, $26
The Lamentations of Ian Frazier
Whether flat-out funny in his Shouts and Murmurs columns in The New Yorker (most recently, the column about the man who bought and is renovating Wyoming), thoughtful and moving in books like On the Rez or far-ranging and perceptive in essay collections like the upcoming Lamentations of the Father, Ian Frazier is an American original. A mix of journalist and comedian, heir to Mark Twain and James Thurber, Frazier brings a sharp but loving eye to the vagaries of American life. He talks with WNYC's Leonard Lopate.

I've never seen Frazier speak, I bet he's very entertaining. I wish I were in NYC for this but—ain't.

Plus, don't overlook this event at the same venue:

Monday, June 2, 8:15 pm, $26
Bill McKibben on the Environment
When, in the 1980s, Bill McKibben started writing about climate change and the environment in The New Yorker, he was one of the first mainstream writers to draw attention to the subject. His writing profoundly affected Al Gore, among others. McKibben's books include The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information and Enough; this spring, Times Books has published a collection of his essays, The Bill McKibben Reader, and he is the editor of American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Library of America).

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