ILLUSTRATOR AT EINSTEIN SALON: In conjunction with the exhibition “The Einstein Salon and Innovators Gallery,” the Historical Society will host the illustrator, Anne Simon, at the Updike Farmstead museum, 354 Quaker Road, on Thursday, October 6 at 5 p.m. Ms. Simon, co-author of the graphic biography of Einstein with Corinne Maier, will share the steps of her artistic process. At 4 p.m. a pre-talk conservation will be broadcast live on the official Albert Einstein Facebook page. The video will also be available online for later viewing. Labyrinth Books will be on site to sell copies of “Einstein.”
David Library Presents Lecture on Jefferson
The David Library of the American Revolution will present a lecture on Thomas Jefferson by Robert M. S. McDonald — a member of the faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point — on Sunday, October 2 at 3 p.m. The public is invited to the admission-free event, which will be held at the David Library, 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing, Reservations are required. Mr. McDonald’s lecture is titled, “Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson, Revered and Reviled,” and is based on his new book, Confounding Father, Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time (Univ. of Virginia Press $29.95). A n adju nct scholar of the Cato Institute, Mr. McDonald is a graduate of the University of Virginia, Oxford University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned his PhD. A specialist on Thomas Jefferson and the early American republic, he is editor of Thomas Jefferson’s Military Academy: Founding West Point, and author of Light & Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and the Power of Knowledge, and Sons of the Father: George Washington and His Protégés. He is completing an edited volume to be titled Thomas Jefferson’s Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History. He lives in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, with his wife, Christine, and their children Jefferson and Grace. “Few figures in American history provoke as much of a division in public opinion
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as Thomas Jefferson,” according to Mr. McDonald, who serves on the David Library’s Academic Advisory Council. Reservations for this lecture can be made by calling (215) 493-6776 x 100 or by sending an email to rsvp@ dlar.org. ———
“War of Worlds” Talk At Two Locations
A. Brad Schwar tz, author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, will visit Somerset County Library System of New Jersey to reexamine this landmark moment in media history, showing that the broadcast was history’s first viral media phenomenon — decades before the age of Twitter and 24-hour news. Mr. Schwartz’s presentations will take place on October 5, 7-8 p.m. at Somerset’s Bridgewater Library branch, located at 1 Vogt Drive in Bridgewater and on October 6, 7-8 p.m. at the Hillsborough Library branch, located 379 South Branch Road in Hillsborough. Broadcast Hysteria draws upon a t rove of nearly 2,000 unpublished letters from people who heard the broadcast back in 1938, more than 200 of which came from New Jersey, giving readers a new view on this moment in media history by letting the people who experienced it speak for themselves. “It’s a thrill and an honor to come tell the story of War of the Worlds so close to the site of the most famous invasion that never hap pened,” said Mr. Schwartz. “In the course of my research, I read hundreds of letters from New Jerseyites who heard the broadcast back in 1938, and their stories — sometimes funny, often opinionated, and always
Young Author Bao Visits YA Press Corps
Young Adult (YA) author and Princeton High School alum Karen Bao, author of Dove Arising and Dove Exiled, will meet with the YA Press Corps at Labyrinth Books on Thursday, September 29 at 6 p.m. L a b y r i n t h ’s YA P r e s s Corps meet to read and talk about favorite books, and practice writing short reviews of books. “My childhood in New Jersey,” writes Karen Bao, who will talk about her writing process and answer questions, “was full of music, books, stargazing, and buggy science ‘experiments’ on the playground. As a high school senior, I wrote Dove Arising when I should have been doing my homework. I now study environmental bi-
ology at college in New York City, soaking up inspiration for future books.” Reviews by YA Press Corps members will be featured in the store and on social media. There will be book giveaways and news about what books have just been published or will be coming out this fall. There will be lemonade and cookies. All are welcome. ———
C.K. Williams Series Hosts Teddy Wayne
The C.K. Williams Reading S er ies at L aby r int h Books showcases senior thesis students of the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. On Friday, September 30 at 6 p.m. Award-winning novelist
Teddy Wayne and five seniors — Claire Ashmead, E m m a M i ch a la k, Z e e n a Muburak, Do-Hyeong Myeong, and Steffen Seitz — will read from their work. Teddy Wayne, the author of Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil, is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/ Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanit y Fair, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. The series celebrates the memory of Pulitzer-Prizewinning poet and Princeton University faculty member C.K. Williams, who died a year ago this month. ———
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illuminating — that helped make this bygone event seem fresh and exciting even after more than seven decades. Welles’ broadcast and the reaction to it revealed the persuasive power of fake news, teaching lessons that remain just as timely today — especially in this unusual election season.” Somerset County Library System of New Jersey will be giving away a signed copy of Mr. Schwartz’s book during an upcoming #FreeBookFriday promotion on the Library System’s Facebook page, Facebook.com/ SCLSNJ. Registration is required to attend these programs. For more information or to register, visit SCLSNJ.org or contact your local SCLSNJ library branch. ———