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AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS

Next event: 27 September 2010
Richard Russo

27 September 2010
That Old Cape Magic


Where Richard Russo’s recent novels Empire Falls and Bridge of Sighs were epic in scale, his eighth book, That Old Cape Magic is smaller: a warmly comic portrait of a man in midlife crisis.

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West Indisch Huis
Herenmarkt 99 Amsterdam

A New Literature Course


Presented by The John Adams Institute and De Rode Hoed

Crossing Boundaries: TV, Movies and Books in the 21st Century. Taught in English by Dan Hassler-Forest of the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Students can not be allowed anymore, the course is full.


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25 September 2010

Public Launch American Book Center Machine
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The Integrationist , the latest
New York Times Magazine article by our director Russell Shorto







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Upcoming lectures:
17 Sep. 2010  Bret Easton Ellis
27 Sep. 2010  Richard Russo
21 Oct. 2010  Jonathan Franzen
02 Nov. 2010  Michael Cunningham
18 Nov. 2010  Lang Lang

Bret Easton Ellis

17 Sept. 2010
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Our Past Events VIDEOS on VPRO's weblogs:

   14-Jan. Jonathan Safran Foer
   24-Jan. James Ellroy
05-Feb. Jesse Jackson
10-Mar.  Ron Rash
21-Apr.   E. Benjamin Skinner
28-Apr.  Jon Krakauer
03-Jun.  Kathryn Stockett
08-Jun.  David Remnick

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Our Mission


The mission of the John Adams Institute is to provide a window onto the United States for Dutch audiences. Our main way of carrying this out is by bringing notable Americans--novelists, politicians, historians, scientists, screenwriters, poets--to the Netherlands, and having them talk about their work and their insights.

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