Celebrating the Power of the Written Word to Create Change
Goddard Riverside’s Book Chats give you deeper insight into some of the most important issues of the day. These interviews take you inside the author’s mind and uncover thoughts and experiences that didn’t make it into the book. You’ll also have a chance to ask your own questions!
Each year we interview the winners of the Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice and Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. We also schedule additional book events when we have the chance to bring you an interesting author.
Explore Events
15oct
5:30PM
Book Chat with Richard D. Kahlenberg
Join us on October 15th for a discussion and audience Q&A with Richard D. Kahlenberg, winner of the 2023 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice for Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See.
The event will begin at 5:30 PM at Fordham University in the Lowenstein 12th floor lounge (113 West 60th Street).
The discussion will be moderated by Gail Collins, an Opinion columnist for The New York Times. She joined the paper in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later became an Op-Ed columnist. In 2001, she made history as the first woman appointed editor of the Times’s editorial page. In early 2007, she stepped down to take a leave of absence to write a book and returned to the Times as a columnist in July 2007. Ms. Collins has authored numerous books on women’s history.
Recent Book Chats
Watch or read about our most recent book chats below and learn about our past book chats via the sidebar.
On September 18, 2023, Goddard Riverside invited the community to join us for an in-person discussion about Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City with the author Andrea Elliott, winner of our 2022 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. The discussion was moderated by Lydia Polgreen, journalist and option columnist for The New York Times.
Past Events
Book Prize Book Chats 2024
In-person interactive discussions and live Q&A with our 2023 Youth and Adult Book Prize winners.
Book Prize Book Chats 2023
In-person interactive discussions and live Q&A with our 2022 Youth and Adult Book Prize winners.
Book Prize Book Chats 2022
In-person and Virtual interactive discussions and live Q&A with our 2021 Youth and Adult Book Prize winners.
Book Chat: Baby, Unplugged: One Mother’s Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age
An in-person discussion with Author Sophie Brickman and Goddard Riverside Board Member Besty Newell on March 8, 2022.
Book Prize Book Chats 2021
Virtual interactive discussions and live Q&A with our 2020 Youth and Adult Book Prize winners.
Book Prize Book Chat 2020
Virtual interactive discussion and live Q&A with our two 2019 Adult Book Prize winners.
Book Chat: How to Raise a Reader
Virtual interactive discussion and live Q&A with co-author Maria Russo.
Book Prize Book Chat 2019
In-person discussion with our 2018 Adult Book Prize winner, Bernice Yeung. Held at our Bernie Wohl Center on November 14, 2019.
Book Prize Book Chat 2018
In-person discussion with our 2017 Adult Book Prize winner, Susan Burton. Moderated by Pulitzer Prize Winner James Forman, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America; Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Held at our Bernie Wohl Center on November 15, 2018.