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The Queens College Evening Readings series presents award-winning and renowned writers, to begin </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 50, 74); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Tuesday, October 23 </b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 50, 74); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">at </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 50, 74); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">7:00
PM</b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 50, 74); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> in </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 50, 74); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Choral
Room 264 </b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 50, 74); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">in </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 50, 74); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Lefrak
Concert Hall </b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 50, 74); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and is free to all CUNY faculty and students.</span><br>
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<strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(33,50,74)">Tuesday, October 23,</span></strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(33,50,74)"> <em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">New
York Times</span></em> bestselling novelist James Kaplan will discuss his creative process and read from his work. In November 2010, Doubleday published <em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Frank: The Voice</span></em>, the first volume of Kaplan's
definitive biography of Frank Sinatra. The book was also chosen by former <em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">New York Times</span></em> chief book critic Michiko Kakutani as one of her Top Ten Books of 2010. In Spring 2019 Yale University Press
will publish Kaplan's <em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Irving Berlin: New York Genius,</span></em> as part of its Jewish Lives series.</span><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(33,50,74)">Tuesday, November 13</span></strong><span style="color:rgb(33,50,74)">, Ricky Riccardi will discuss the last 25 years of the life and career of Louis Armstrong. These were Armstrong's
most popular years but in the jazz world, many critics spent those years criticizing Armstrong for "going commercial," for "selling out," for being an "Uncle Tom" and more. Riccardi's book<em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What a Wonderful World:
The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years</span></em> refuted those claims, often using Armstrong's own words to defend himself. </span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(33,50,74)">Tuesday, December 11,</span></strong><span style="color:rgb(33,50,74)"> award-winning author Jennifer Egan will read from her novel <em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A
Visit from the Goon Squad</span></em>, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the<em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Los Angeles Times</span></em> book prize. Her newest novel <em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Manhattan
Beach</span></em> has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was long listed for the National Book Award. </span></p>
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