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THE COFFEE HOUSE
Our History
Frank Crowninshield
Listen to the Coffee House Podcast
Calendar of Events
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THE COFFEE HOUSE
Our History
Frank Crowninshield
Listen to the Coffee House Podcast
Calendar of Events
Contact
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Our History
Frank Crowninshield
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There’s So Much Happening at

The Coffee House

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2026 Winter/Spring Calendar



Friday, April 3rd @4pm
Breaking the Audio Fiction Form
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Wednesday, April 8th
The Photography of Francine Harris

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Wednesday, April 15th
Author Fiona Davis
in conversation with Carl Raymond
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Wednesday, April 22nd
Author Hannah Lillith Assadi
Paradiso 17 (Knopf, March 2026)
in conversation with Julian Tepper

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Wednesday, April 29th
A Talk of the Town Cinematic Event 
 The Grand Niece of Greta Garbo, Gray Horan
In a rare conversation
with Victoria Wilson and Foster Hirsch
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Wednesday, May 6

Craig Rubano Performs!

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Email us at: coffeehouseclub@hotmail.com

Notable Past Members

 

Frank Crowninshield founded the Coffee House. Crowninshield was a successful editor, a good friend of Condé Nast and founding editor of Vanity Fair Magazine.

 

Mary Perot Nichols, twice the head of WNYC and Village Voice columnist, was a member of the Coffee House.

The artist Maxfield Parrish was a longtime member of the Coffee House.

 

Legendary actor and Oscar winner, Douglas Fairbanks, was a member of the Coffee House.

Harold Ross, founding editor of the New Yorker Magazine, was a member of the Coffee House.

Dona Guimaraes, editor of the New York Times Home & Design Section, was a member of the Coffee House.

Celebrated author and the second female president of the American Academy of the Arts, Hortense Calisher, was a member of the Coffee House.

Famed New York Magazine theater critic, Edith Olivier, was a member of the Coffee House.

Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Scribner & Sons editor, who discovered F. Scot Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, was a member of the Coffee House.

Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill was a member of the Coffee House. He is the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for drama.

The great Irving Berlin was a member of the Coffee House.

Andy Logan, one of the first women writers for the New Yorker Magazine, and called the “Dean of City Hall” for her tough local reportage, was a member of the Coffee House.

Renowned comedic author, PG Wodehouse, was a member of the Coffee House.

New Yorker cartoonist, Charles Addams, was a member of the club. For the magazine, he would create the cartoon series, The Addams Family, which would go onto become an American television and film institution.

The one-and-only Cole Porter was a member of the Coffee House.

What We’ve Been Up to of Late…

For all inquiries, email: coffeehouseclub@hotmail.com