Upcoming Literary Events

Attention book lovers! JCCMW is your go-to destination for literary events. Come connect with fellow readers, enjoy engaging discussions with authors, and be inspired by the power of storytelling!

The Best Minds: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosen
Tuesday, May 14, 7:00–8:00 PM
Admission: $36
Join acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen for a discussion of his recent paperback issue of The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, a haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved.

May Book Group: The Night Travelers
Friday, May 31, 1:00–2:30 PM
Admission: $10; free for Senior Members
Armando Lucas Correa will join us to talk about his latest book The Night Travelers, a sweeping novel that features four generations of women who experience love, loss, war, and hope in the years between the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

June Book Group: Taking Miracles Seriously
Friday, June 21, 1:00–2:30 PM
Admission: $10; free for Senior Members
Storyteller Rabbi Zedek joins us to share his recent book Taking Miracles Seriously, a master course on how to craft an enriched and enriching spiritual life. It draws on a range of materials—including biblical tales, Indian and Japanese folklore, the works of St. Augustine, Einstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Groucho Marx—to take readers on a truly original search for spiritual sustenance in everyday life.