Tuesday Book Talks
Unless otherwise noted, the Tuesday Book Talks are held from 2:00-3:30 pm in the Large Auditorium
at the Washington Ave Branch, 161 Washington Ave, Albany, New York
October 20 | Author Talk | Paul Grondahl, Opalka Endowed Director, NYS Writers Institute, discusses & reads from his new book, Andy Rooney: A Lucky Life.
October 27 | Book Review | The Spirit of Philadelphia: A Call to Recover Founding Principles by Chris Gibson. Reviewer: Roger Green, MLS, business librarian retired from the NY Small Business Development Center.
November 3 | Book Review | Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River by Eric Kuhn and John Fleck. Reviewer: Jonathan Skinner, PhD, retired statistician & amateur classicist.
November 10 |Book Review | The Odyssey by Homer and others, including Christopher Nolan. Reviewer: Hans-Friedrich O. Mueller, PhD, professor of Classics, Union College.
November 17| Book Review | This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World by Andrea di Robilant. Reviewer: Dylan Carey, MS, avid cyclist, hiker, & a railroad history buff.
November 24 | Author Talk | Steve Trimm, peace activist, discusses & reads from his book, Walking Wounded: Men’s Lives during and since the Vietnam War.
December 1 | Book Review | Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History by Oren Harman. Reviewer: Sherrie Lyons, PhD, science historian.
December 8 | Author Talk | Phil Bayly, TV reporter & anchor, discusses & reads from his eighth book, A Southern Slope.
December 15 | Book Review | The Wounded Generation: Coming Home after World War 2 by David Nasaw. Reviewer: James Collins, PhD, prof. emeritus, Anthropology Dept., Program in Linguistics & Cognitive Science, U at Albany, SUNY.
December 22 |Holiday Concert with the Albany High School Choir, directed by Brendan Hoffman. THIS PROGRAM WILL START AT 12:30 PM, unlike our other programs.
December 29 | Book Review | Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper. Reviewer: Donald “The Soul Man” Hyman, teacher, actor, singer. writer, TV host/producer, & veteran.