Saturday, March 22, 2008

Harold Schechter . . .


@ CUNY Graduate Center
Gotham History Blotter: Reading and Book Signing

Wednesday, March 26th
6:30–8:00 pm, free
34th Street and Fifth Avenue
The Gotham Center recently introduced a new section on its website, The Gotham History Blotter, that features short non-fiction essays about New York City history. This event features several recent contributors including Morton Zachter, author of the award-winning DOUGH: A Memoir; Harold Schechter, author of THE DEVIL'S GENTLEMAN: Privilege, Poison and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century; and Benjamin Feldman, author of BUTCHERY ON BOND STREET: Sexual Politics and the Burdell-Cunningham Case in Antebellum New York.