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AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE NETHERLAND

Our evenings combine a lecture or reading by the invited guest and a discussion on stage with our specially selected moderator. Add in questions from the audience and we can promise a fascinating and lively discussion!
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Next event: 17 September 2010
Bret Easton Ellis

Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis became a celebrity novelist in 1985, at the age of 20, when Less Than Zero was published. Since then, his work has both built upon and mocked the themes that made him famous, including drug use, designer labels and generally amoral behavior.
In his new novel, he returns to the characters of his first book. They are now in middle age, still living in Los Angeles. Donna Tartt, in reviewing the new book, highlighted its eeriness: “the BlackBerry flashing on the nightstand in the middle of the night, everywhere the subliminal hum of menace.”

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Singelkerk
Singel 452 Amsterdam

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The Integrationist, the latest New York Times Magazine article by our director Russell Shorto: www.nytimes.com

THEATRE
American actor Shelley Mitchell will perform at de Balie in Amsterdam on 2 & 3 September with Talking with Angels on 6 September with International Masterclasses


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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

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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Literature Course

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

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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.

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