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

The Coffee House

Wednesday, Sept. 10th | 6:30pm

"Talk of the Town"
with Victoria Wilson & Foster Hirsch
On Chaim Grade's final Novel 
"Sons and Daughters" (Knopf, 2025).
Dinner to follow
RSVP HERE


Tuesesday, Sept. 16th | 5pm-7pm


LAUGHTER AND FRIENDSHIP AT THE LONG TABLE: GLIMPSES OF COFFEE HOUSE HISTORY

Exhibition Opening at The Century Association, 7 West 43rd Street, New York, N.Y.
ONLY FOR COFFEE HOUSE MEMBERS


Wednesday, Sept. 17th | 6:30pm


Author Helen Schulman
"Fools for Love"
Dinner to follow
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Friday, Sept. 19th | 12:15pm

Coffee House Friday Lunch Series
Author Stephanie Cowell
"The Man in the Stone Cottage"
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Wednesday, Sept. 24th | 6:30pm


Poets of Patchin Place:
Musical Settings of Village Poets
Dinner to follow
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Wednesday, Oct. 1st | 6:30pm


Steve Ross & Nina Wachenfeld
with singers Zachary Stains and Benjamin Weil 
Dinner to follow
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Wednesday, Oct. 8th | 6:30pm


Breaking the Audio Fiction Form
With Sara Farrington, Theater Is Hard (Live)
Dinner to follow
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Wednesday, Oct. 15th | 6:30pm


On Zoe Anderson Norris:
"The Queen of Bohemia Who Fought For the Poor"
Eve Kahn, independent scholar and New York Times contributor,
in conversation with Carl Raymond
Dinner to follow
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Wednesday, Oct. 22nd | 6:30pm


"Talk of the Town"
with Victoria Wilson & Foster Hirsch
in conversation with Neil Baldwin on Martha Graham 
Dinner to follow


Wednesday, Oct. 29th | 6:30pm


Chris Carter | Creator of the X-Files
Dinner to follow

 

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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