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Thursday Night Authors Studio with A.J. Jacobs
August 30, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 | 7:00pm
New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the “Family of Humankind.” A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.” Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs’s three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history…
2018 Thursday Night Authors Studio Schedule:
- July 5: John Leland, author of Happiness is a Choice You Make
- July 12: Alan Zweibel, author of For This We Left Egypt?
- July 19: Amy Chozik, author of Chasing Hillary
- July 26: Abigail Pogrebin, author of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
- August 2: Jonathan Weisman, author of (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
- August 9: Joy Behar, author of The Great Gasbag: An A-to-Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World
- August 16: Kate Siegel, author of Mother, Can You Not?
- August 30: A.J. Jacobs, author of It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree
Our Thursday Night Authors Studio is graciously underwritten by Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch, and Paul Brennan.