Acclaimed author Michael Wolraich will discuss his narrative nonfiction book, The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age. Moderated by Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of six books including New York Times bestseller, The Poisoners Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.

Authors Michael Wolraich, Sara DiViello, and Pulitzer prize-winning biographer Debby Applegate will discuss New York City murders, madams, and gangsters in the 1920s at the historic Lambs Club.

The Lambs is a private club. Contact Michael Wolraich to be included on the guest list.

Acclaimed author Michael Wolraich will discuss the scandalous history of the Jefferson Market Library and read from his forthcoming narrative nonfiction book, The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age.

Launching on February 6, 2024, The Lit Salon will feature author Michael Wolraich, whose latest book The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age (Union Square & Co.) chronicles a true crime epic of murder and corruption in 1930s New York. Michael will be in conversation with author and journalist Michelle Young and Pulitzer Prize winner Debby Applegate, author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler. The Prohibition-era cocktail, Bees Knees, will be served and a musical performance of Gabriel Faure’s Piano Trio, composed in the same decade as the events in the book, will open the event. You can join in-person or virtually and can order the book with your tickets or pre-order the book separately.

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Michael Wolraich discusses his book, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics, at the Word for Word literary series, sponsored by the Bryant Park Reading Room and the New York Historical Society.