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Pen Paper Palate: (Spring 2015)
with BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 7:00PM

The Half King
505 W. 23rd Street at 10th Avenue
(at 10th Avenue)
New York, NY 10011

with BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney

This event is likely to sell out as space is very limited. Please book early.

Doors open at 6:30pm.

Frank Delaney moderates a conversation with an esteemed panel of writers for a witty and engrossing literary salon on the topic of “International Spies” at Sebastian Junger and Scott Anderson’s The Half King. The evening will feature a special menu will be available for those who wish to linger for conversation and book signings.

Panelists include:

Eric Lichtblau is a New York Times investigative reporter in Washington DC. In 2006 he won a Pulitzer Prize for stories on the NSA's secret wiretapping operations. He has also appeared as a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, C-SPAN, ABC, and elsewhere. He is the author of The Nazies Next Door and Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice.

Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent who has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt,Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other strife-torn countries. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, his work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Harper's and Outside. He is the author of novels Moonlight Hotel and Triage and of non-fiction books Lawrence in Arabia, The Man Who Tried to Save the World and The 4 O'Clock Murders, and co-author of War Zones and Inside The League with his brother Jon Lee Anderson.

Alex Berenson is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of seven thriller novels and one work of non-fiction. He is the winner of the Edgar Award and #1 New York Times best seller. At The New York Times, he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina; in 2003 and 2004, he served two stints as a correspondent in Iraq, an experience that led him to write The Faithful Spy, his debut novel, which won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel.

James Grady is The New York Times bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor, which became the Robert Redford movie Three Days of the Condor. Besides working as a screenwriter for CBS, FX, HBO, and major studios, his journalism includes street time as a muckraker for columnist Jack Anderson after Watergate and being a cultural columnist for AOL's PoliticsDaily.com. Internationally renowned for his work, Grady won France's Grand Prix du Roman Noir, Italy's Raymond Chandler medal, and was named by London's Daily Telegraph as "one of 50 crime writers to read before you die."