Lisa See in conversation with Julie Robinson about her novel Shanghai Girls. This event was recorded at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on June 2, 2009. ABOUT THE BOOK In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, full of great wealth and glamour, home to millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May are having the time of their lives, thanks to the financial...

Historical Friction: Characters in Conflict How does historical fiction help us understand what is happening in our world today? Watch the Historical Fiction Salon on FORA.tv Julie Robinson moderates this fun and informative discussion about Historical Fiction with authors Maggie Anton: Rashi's Daughters C.W. Gortner: The Last Queen Gail Tsukiyama: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms Book Group Expo is a fun filled week-end of Literary Salons for book groups and book lovers. Photo Courtesy...

Literary Affairs Presents an exclusive book club discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks in conversation with Julie Robinson. ABOUT THE BOOK In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a...

Listen to Julie Robinson and author Katharine Weber as they discuss her novel TRIANGLE in a book group setting at the Westwood Public Library. ABOUT THE BOOK Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told her story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to survive the fire when at least 146 workers, most...

Literary Affairs Presents Jane Austen's Persuasion as part of The Jane Austen Book Club series. Book Club discussion leader Julie Robinson and guest lecturer Professor Charles Lynn Batten from UCLA lead this informative and fun series. ABOUT THE BOOK Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her...

Literary Affairs Presents War and Peace as a three part series. Part one focuses on Tolstoy, Russia, the context of the novel, translation, and an overview of the work. Book Club discussion leader Julie Robinson and guest lecturer Professor David MacFadyen the chair of the Slavic Language and Literature department at UCLA lead this informative and fun series. ABOUT THE BOOK "The best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English." -Robert A. Maguire, professor emeritus of Russian studies,...

Literary Affairs Presents Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as part of The Jane Austen Book Club series. Book Club discussion leader Julie Robinson and guest lecturer Professor Charles Lynn Batten from UCLA lead this informative and fun series. ABOUT THE BOOK Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings...

Literary Affairs Presents Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey as part of The Jane Austen Book Club Series. Book Club discussion leader Julie Robinson and guest lecturer Professor Charles Lynn Batten from UCLA lead this informative and fun series. ABOUT THE BOOK During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance...

Literary Affairs Presents Jane Austen's Mansfiield Park as part of The Jane Austen Book Club series. Book Club discussion leader Julie Robinson and guest lecturer Professor Charles Lynn Batten from UCLA lead this informative and fun series. ABOUT THE BOOK Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice, the last of which...

Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Diana Loevy author of The Book Club Companion join Julie Robinson to discuss Everything Jane on a panel recorded at the Book Group Expo in San Jose, California.