Story/Teller
Our Story/Teller series features actors reading from new works of fiction to give audiences a taste of the language, characters, and story, followed by moderated conversations with the authors.
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Story/Teller: Truly Like Lightning with David Duchovny and Jess Walter
Tuesday, 7:30 pm EST February 2, 2021
David Duchovny and Jess Walter (The Cold Millions) are back together, this time to talk about Duchovny’s... -
Story/Teller: Wild Swims with Dorthe Nors and Brigid Hughes
Wednesday, 6:00 pm EST February 3, 2021
The event will open with a dramatic reading of Dorthe Nors’s Wild Swims: Stories, translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra -
Story/Teller: We Run the Tides with Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits and Marin Ireland
Wednesday, 7:30 pm EST February 10, 2021
Award-winning actor Marin Ireland will perform a dramatic reading of the first chapter from Vendela Vida’s...
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Story/Teller with Zeyn Joukhadar, Samy Nour Younes, Leila Buck, and Jenn Baker
Actors Samy Nour Younes and Leila Buck performed selections from Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Thirty... -
Story/Teller with Jonathan Lethem, Edward Norton, and Kim Stanley Robinson
Edward Norton, who wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a film adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless... -
Story/Teller: The Cold Millions with Jess Walter and David Duchovny
Actor David Duchovny performed a dramatic reading from Jess Walter’s outstanding historical novel The...
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Story/Teller: Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind with Tonya Pinkins, Marin Ireland, and Jessica Winter
Renowned stage and screen actors Tonya Pinkins (1992 Tony Award winner) and Marin Ireland (2009 Tony Award nominee)... -
Story/Teller with Ayad Akhtar, Aasif Mandvi, and Jennifer Egan
Playwright and author Ayad Akhtar joined actor Aasif Mandvi to perform selections from his newest novel Homeland... -
Story/Teller with Walter Mosley, Leon Addison Brown, and Jamia Wilson
Prolific stage and screen actor Leon Addison Brown performed a dramatic reading from The Awkward Black Man (Grove Press)...
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Story/Teller: Deborah Levy Presents The Man Who Saw Everything with Richard Bekins
Stage and screen actor Richard Bekins performed excerpts from Deborah Levy’s The... -
Story/Teller: Kate Walbert Presents She Was Like That with Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor performed excerpts from Kate Walbert’s new collection of stories, She Was Like That... -
Story/Teller: Salman Rushdie, Joan Allen, Ayad Akhtar, & Aasif Mandvi Present Quichotte
We were delighted to host an intimate evening with Salman Rushdie on the night of the release of Quichotte! Ayad Akhtar, Joan Allen and...