Adult Education presents: "Lies and Liars" November 11, 2008

Adult Education is a Brooklyn-based monthly lecture series devoted to making useless knowledge somewhat less useless. Each month is devoted to a given theme, and several speakers address some aspect of that theme using visual aids. Adult Ed has been a frequent Critic's Pick in Time Out New York, while The Onion AV Club declared that "Adult Education ... manages to be both informative and thoroughly entertaining."

In November, Adult Education welcomes a panel of presenters to speak on the theme of "Lies and Liars." The line-up will include:

"Confessions of a Literary Forger"
Lee Israel, author of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, details her career in literary crime.

"The Way We Lie"
Is a white lie a gateway drug to larger lies? Writer Jill Stoddard investigates this and other fun facts about lying, including some she made up on her own.

"On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Fraud"
D.E. Rasso examines the duplicitous and desperate world of Internet impostors.

"You Are Not Going to Be Famous"
Jim Hanas debunks America's big lie.

All hosted by comedian Charles Star.

BIOS
Lee Israel is the author of biographies of Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder, and Dorothy Kilgallen—the last of which was a New York Times bestseller. Her latest book, Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger was published in August by Simon & Schuster. It chronicles the twenty year chasm between her early successes and publication of the memoir, and details why and how she turned her talents for research and reporting to high crime and class A-felonies.

Jill Stoddard is a Brooklyn-based writer and web editor who has had a few funny things published in McSweeney's and by NPR. She is currently working on a story about two gingerbread cookies who fall in love and then eat each other. She has told many, many lies.

D.E. Rasso is a writer and editor whose work has appeared on blogs such as 1 Hit Song, Blottered, and Young Manhattanite. An essay is forthcoming in (what may or may not be called) The Book of Exes (Plume, 2009). Most recently, she argued about Jane's Addiction with author Charles Bock on a panel at the Downtown Omaha Litfest. When not working on her imaginary novel and collection of essays, she enjoys going online and pretending to be a cancer-riddled, transgendered fighter pilot.

Jim Hanas's writing has appeared in Radar, Slate, McSweeney's, One Story, Print, and other publications. Lately, he's been helping to curate and produce Adult Education. He's as disappointed as you are that fame will ultimately elude us all.

Charles Star is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with his excellent wife, his awesome cat, and a newborn baby genius. He's on the web at www.charlesstar.com.

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