Author Critic John Lahr Guest of The Literary Society

As part of the Gene Barnett Literary Society series, John Lahr, the senior drama critic and in-depth profiler for the New Yorker magazine, lectured on “Comedy and Revenge” last month at the Metropolitan Campus. Lahr’s talk was a probing and humorous discussion of influential comedians including his father, Bert Lahr; Buster Keaton; Woody Allen; and others.

Left photo: John Lahr signs a book for Bernard Dick, English and communications (Metro). Right photo: Benjamin Nelson, left, English (Metro), and Duane Edwards, right, English and director, communication arts (Metro), enjoyed the lecture by and met with John Lahr, center.

The society’s next presentation will be award-winning author Russell Banks who will speak on “Living in the Sweet Hereafter” on Tuesday, May 6, Wilson Auditorium, Dickinson Hall, Metropolitan Campus. Tickets, available at 7:30 p.m. on the evening of the lecture, are free for FDU faculty, staff and students with valid FDU ID. For further information, call 201-692-7028.

Banks, a prolific writer of fiction, has written a dozen novels and short-story collections that have won him Guggenheim and NEA grants and a St. Lawrence Prize for fiction. He has made a life’s work of charting the causes and effects of the terrible things “normal” men can and will do. For more information go to http://inside.fdu.edu/prpt/banks.html.

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