An Avid OTBKB reader sent this in. I am posting it just so I can use the work espionage in a headline.
What a cool word. It must be French.
This is the first event at Kingsborough College I’ve ever posted about. Cool.
Acclaimed espionage author Alan Furst will appear at Kingsborough Community College’s Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center as part of the fourth annual Best-Selling Author Series on Wednesday, October 29 at 7:30pm. Admission to the talk is FREE. To make reservations, call the box office at 718-368-5596.
Alan Furst has been called “America’s preeminent spy novelist.” His best-selling novels, which have been translated into fifteen languages, have been described by The New York Times as being “equal parts espionage thriller, European history and love story.”
Furst was born and raised in Manhattan. He lived in the south of France—as a Fulbright Teaching fellow at the Faculte des Lettres at the University of Montpellier, then in Seattle, where he worked for the City of Seattle Arts Commission.
He wrote for magazines—travel pieces and book reviews for Esquire, and wrote and published four novels. Returning to France, he lived in Paris, wrote a weekly column for The International Herald Tribune, and wrote his first historical espionage novel, Night Soldiers (1988). This was followed by Dark Star (1991), The Polish Officer (1995), The World at Night (1996), Red Gold (1999), Kingdom of Shadows (2000), Blood of Victory (2002), Dark Voyage (2004), and The Foreign Correspondent (2006). His latest book, The Spies of Warsaw (2008), is set in Poland in 1937 and features the brilliant Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a soldier-spy drawn into a shadowy world of abduction, betrayal, passion, and intrigue in the back alleys and diplomatic salons of Warsaw.
Kingsborough’s Best-Selling Author Series is a series of lively and informal talks by authors on the process of writing and publishing books and the adventures they have had along the way. Upcoming readings include biographer Richard Reeves (President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination and A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford) on Wednesday, February 11 at 7:30pm; thriller writer Colin Harrison (Manhattan Nocturne; Afterburn; The Havana Room;and The Finder)on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30pm.
Events are FREE and include a Q&A with the author and a book-signing. Advance reservations are required; limit of two tickets per person per event. To reserve your tickets, please call (718) 368-5596. The programs begin at 7:30pm in the Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center, 2001 Oriental Boulevard in the Manhattan Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn. Seating begins at 7pm. Parking is free. To get to the campus via mass transit, take the B1 or B49 bus to the last stop and walk to campus; the Q train (Brighton Beach stop) and F train (Avenue X stop) both meet up with the B1 bus.
This event is presented as part of a commitment by Kingsborough Community College and President Regina S. Peruggi to respond to the educational, cultural, and economic needs of their students and the community, especially the diverse neighborhoods of south Brooklyn. The college hosts free and low-cost public events throughout the year including the Lively Arts & Ideas series; the Family Arts series; and the FREE Sundays at KCC series. More information about the college and events offered to the pubic can be found at www.kingsborough.edu/events