Events & News
Dates, times, and venues may be subject to change. Please confirm in advance.
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- New York, NY
- New York Society Library - Book Launch Event at
- In conversation with Joseph Kanon
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- Washington, DC
- Politics and Prose (Conn Ave) at
- In conversation with bestselling biographer Kitty Kelley
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- New York, NY
- The Corner Bookstore at
- In conversation with Heather Clark, Pulitzer finalist for Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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- New York, NY
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library at
- "Exploring the Lives and Legacies of Literary Risk-takers," with Adam Morgan
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- Madison, CT
- R. J. Julia Booksellers at
- In conversation with Roxanne Coady
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- New York, NY
- The CUNY Grad Center at
- In conversation with Jonathan Galassi, poet, novelist, translator, editor, and chairman of FSG
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- New York, NY
- CUNY Graduate Center Room 5406 at
- NYU-CUNY Biography Seminar
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- Online via Zoom
- James Joyce Society at
- Lunchtime Book Launch Conversation with Adam Morgan
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- New York, NY
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University at
- Discussing the RBML and Nothing Random
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- Coral Gables, FL
- Books & Books at
- In conversation (Special guest TBA)
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- New York, NY
- Vartan Gregorian Center, New York Public Library at
- Collections Talk: "What Archives Can Tell You"
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News updates and media appearances.
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Nov 14, 2025: A Q&A with Gayle Feldman, Publishers Weekly
Henry Carrigan talked with author Gayle Feldman about the research and writing of Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built.
Read the full article onlineWhat drew you to Bennett Cerf?
I discovered that there was this huge Random House archive and the Cerf archive at Columbia University. I remembered Cerf from when I was a kid and watched him on TV, on the show What’s My Line? I thought you could tell the story of 20th-century publishing through Cerf’s life. I did a proposal and sent it to Bob Loomis at Random House, whom Cerf had hired, and asked if he could tell me if I was on the right track. A couple of days later, he phoned me and told me he had sent my proposal to one of Bennett’s sons, Christopher Cerf, who liked it. But I had no idea what I had taken on: I signed the contract in the autumn of 2002, 23 years ago.