Register by November 27th to volunteer with the Prospect Park Alliance Junior Volunteer Corps! Bring your family for a day of service sprucing up lawn areas around the park.

Sunday, 12/3, 1pm
Prospect Park Bandshell

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Tickets are sold out! Tonight: our premier event of the year, the Twelfth Annual Fall Fête at the Lotos Club

5 East 66th Street, 7–10pm

There's only one more sleep until the Twelfth Annual Fall Fête

Thursday, 7pm, The Lotos Club
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Two days until the Twelfth Annual Fall Fête

And two days until the afterparty at Bedford Falls, E 67th and 3rd

Thursday, 7pm, The Lotos Club
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Three days until the Twelfth Annual Fall Fête

Joining us are Professors Mark Cleaveland, Josh de Leeuw, Justin Patch, Ron Patkus, and John Long

Thursday, 7pm, The Lotos Club
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Please join us via Zoom as we welcome author James G. Robinson ’97, reading from his new memoir, More Than We Expected: Five Years With a Remarkable Child. A discussion will follow, led by Lynn Janovsky ’86. Register at connect.vassar.edu/VCNY_JamesRobinson.

In More Than We Expected, James G. Robinson celebrates the brief but meaningful life of his son Nadav, who was born with a congenital heart defect and died at age five. Not long after losing Nadav, James began writing a grateful reflection on what he and his wife learned during their time together. “It is a terrible thing to know that you will probably outlive your child,” James acknowledges. “But staring at that intense reality long enough, wrestling with its possibility, eventually offered me a glimpse of the profound; a deep and vivid sense of what it really means to live, grow, and heal.” Booklist calls it “a giving, thought-provoking and heart-tugging family saga.”

More Than We Expected: Five Years With a Remarkable Child (morethanamemoir.com) is available at your local bookstore, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Bookshop.org. Although reading the entire book is not a requirement of joining, please be aware that the entire book is up for discussion during the Book Club.

James G. Robinson ’97 has spent nearly two decades at the New York Times, where he helps the company use data to better understand its audience. He has taught expository writing at NYU and is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School. In 2017, his article “Road to Recovery” was featured on the front page of the Times’ Sunday Travel section. Describing a road trip his family took after the death of his five-year-old son, the piece was selected as a notable essay in The Best American Travel Writing 2018 and inspired him to write his debut memoir, More Than We Expected. A native New Yorker, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Tali, and their two surviving sons.