The Glass Castle — With Jeannette Walls

Date	Monday, May 18, 2009
Time	7:00pm
Location	Lincoln Center Performance Hall

Listen to an Exclusive Interview with Jeannette Walls

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New York Times Best-Selling Author Reminds Us That Life Is What We Make It.

E! television correspondent and popular New York Magazine columnist Jeannette Walls made her living spreading celebrity gossip. In her best-selling memoir The Glass Castle, Walls shares her own dirty laundry describing a childhood of hunger, love, homelessness and chaos theory, and her shattered dreams of the beautiful glass house her unorthodox parents promise to build her one day.

In The Glass Castle, Walls describes growing up with three siblings and being raised by two brilliant, yet unbalanced parents, who manage to simultaneously neglect them, love them, and teach them to face their fears. Despite all her hardships, Walls develops the determination to leave West Virginia on her own at the age of sixteen, move to New York City, enroll in Barnard College and eventually become a well-known journalist for New York Magazine, Esquire, USA Today and MSNBC.

Her message of confronting your past and facing your fears resonates with audiences everywhere. Walls explains that we all have more in common than we think, and our flaws are our greatest assets. From colleges to corporations, Walls talks about overcoming hardship and the keys to turning adversity to your advantage. Her story of triumph reminds us that life is what you make it – and during tough times like these, we could all use a happy ending.

The Glass Castle has been taught at universities in courses on literature, psychology, parenting, child development, and poverty. It has been on the New York Times best-seller list for more than two years, has sold over two million copies, been translated into 16 languages, and is being made into a major motion picture by Paramount.

Currently, Walls is writing her next book Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel, which is due to be released in October 2009.

Tickets

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