Person, Place, Thing with Randy Cohen: Alan Klein & Alexander Neubauer

Join us for a live recording of Person, Place, Thing with Randy Cohen featuring curators of Risings: The Irish Literary Revival and the Making of a Nation, Alan Klein & Alexander Neubauer.

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About Randy Cohen:

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

About the Exhibition

Risings explores the formation of Irish identity as told by the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the parallel political quest for nationhood. Drawn from the collections of The New York Public Library, Alexander Neubauer, Alan Klein, and Colm Tóibín, and presented in collaboration with The New York Public Library, the exhibition examines the collaborative partnership of W.B. Yeats, one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, and Lady Augusta Gregory, a dramatist who co-founded with Yeats the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre. Together with a broad circle of writers, including J.M. Synge, James Joyce, and Sean O’Casey, they sparked a modern literary revival amidst the fervor of Irish independence and statehood, writing, in Gregory’s words, “the book of the people.” The exhibition features approximately 130 objects—with more than 50 items from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at The New York Public Library—including typescripts, inscribed and association copies, letters, theatre pamphlets, political propaganda, and photographs, which situate this prolific period of literary production in the broader context of political unrest.

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