At 8:00 on Monday evening, September 14, the GUILD inaugurated its 2009-10 SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE series at the NATIONAL ARTS CLUB with Adam Gopnik, a New Yorker favorite who has touched us with articles such as “The Last of the Metrozoids,” his unforgettable eulogy for friend and art curator Kirk Varnedoe.
Best known for Paris to the Moon, a best-selling account of the years he and his family spent in the City of Light, Mr. Gopnik has also enriched our libraries with Americans in Paris, an anthology of New World responses to France, and Through the Children’s Gate, a collection centered on what the author’s kids experienced upon their eventual return to Manhattan. Mr. Gopnik has graced several GUILD gatherings, among them a delightful 2002 LINCOLN CENTER ceremony at which Kevin Kline received the GIELGUD AWARD. During his last visit to the NAC, he and the GUILD’s John Andrews chatted about themes that Mr. Gopnik has now developed into a widely praised study of two figures who were born on the same day in February 1809. This volume’s title is Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, and it draws on Shakespearean echoes. Copies were available for purchase, and attendees were pleased to see that Mr. Gopnik was more than happy to discuss and inscribe them.
Admission to this events was $25 for members of either the SHAKESPEARE GUILD or the ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION and $30 for non-members. Visit our Membership page for categories of affiliation with the GUILD. Once there you'll find a link to a page that will enable you to enroll as a constituent, book for programs, or do both.
