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12:00 pm EST
September 27, 2026

Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom, 250 Joralemon St

250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn NY 11201 United States

Non-Fiction

Free

Secrets, Lies, and Memory

Every family has a vault, but what happens when we start digging through the contents? Join New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv (You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters), journalist Tom Junod (In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means To Be a Man: A Memoir), and novelist Ed Park (Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties) for a mesmerizing conversation on the construction of secrets. Together, the three master chroniclers will explore the thin line between memory and myth, pulling back the curtain on the scripts families use to shield darker realities—and the many ways we endeavor to protect ourselves from our own pasts. Moderated by Naomi Extra, writer, cartoonist, and scholar at Rutgers University.

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