UPTOWN
AT NIGHT
COMEDY & STORYTELLING ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE
October 30, 6:00 pm
New York Society Library
53 East 79th Street
$20 per person - Reservations Required
Hors d’oeuvres, desserts & wine will be served
AMY CHUA
Amy Chua’s influential 2011 memoir, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, was a runaway international best seller. A distinguished professor at Yale Law School, she is also known for her groundbreaking nonfiction books that explore culture, law, parenting and global politics. Here writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and others. She recently published her first novel, The Golden Gate.
JOHN KENNEY
John Kenney is the author of two novels, Talk to Me and Truth in Advertising, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. His books of humorous poetry include Love Poems for Anxious People, Love Poems for People with Children, and Love Poems for Married People, a New York Times bestseller. He has also worked for many years as a copywriter and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.
ANN LEARY
Ann Leary’s hilarious new essay collection, I’ve Tried Being Nice, is the latest book by the New York Times bestselling author, whose other books include The Foundling, The Children, Outtakes from A Marriage, and a memoir, An Innocent, A Broad. Her novel The Good House was adapted as a motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline. She has written for numerous publications including Ploughshares, NPR, Real Simple and The New York Times.
ALAN ZWEIBEL
Alan Zweibel, the legendary comedian and writer, began his career with Saturday Night Live in the 1970s. He has won multiple Emmy and Writers Guild of America awards for his television work and a Tony Award for his Broadway play 700 Sundays (co-created with Billy Crystal). His novel The Other Shulman won the Thurber Prize for American Humor; his memoir Laugh Lines recounts his remarkable career as America’s inimitable funny man.
BRIAN FITZSOUSA
on keyboard
Brian Fitzsousa is a pianist with the Metropolitan Opera. A composer and music director, he coaches and performs with opera, musical, cabaret and pop singers. He directs music and performs at venues including Joe’s Pub, and Rockwood Music Hall. A graduate of NYU and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he received fellowships from the European American Musical Alliance and the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism.
Uptown at Night presents New York City's most entertaining
storytellers and comedians in a unique old-world setting,
The New York Society Library.
Here you’ll find humorists who are literally funny - award-winning writers including Thurber Prize and PEN honorees, New York Times best-selling authors, New Yorker favorites, Saturday Night Live writers, comics to watch, and more.
And while our comedians and storytellers are up to the minute, our beautiful parlor-floor townhouse setting recalls the glow of the city's unrivaled literary past.
It's a one-of-a-kind show, in a very special place. We hope to see you there!
Highlights of previous shows include:
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Sloane Crosley, named one of America’s 50 funniest writers and author of Cult Classic
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Lisa Birnbach, best-selling author of The Official Preppy Handbook
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Annabelle Gurwitch, actress and author of You're Leaving When?
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Henry Alford, New Yorker writer and "investigative humorist"
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Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist and author
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Michael Arkin, actor
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Nancy McCabe Kelly and Bruce Jarchow, Second City alums
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Tom Perrotta, best-selling novelist with movie adaptations, Election, Little Children, and The Leftovers
SYDNEY LeBLANC
Director
Sydney LeBlanc, a design writer turned humorist, founded Uptown at Night in 2016. Her design books have been published by W.W. Norton and Rizzoli; her articles on contemporary architecture have appeared in The New York Times, Dwell, and other publications. She frequently reads her humorous short stories at The New York Society Library’s "Live from the Library" events.
