The scholarship will benefit from a dinner and panel discussion on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Vermilion, 480 Lexington Avenue (46th Street): $100, or $135 with wine from (212) 871-6600.
Events include author interviews, readings and book signings; master classes in poetry, photography and cartooning; a concert reunion of the fictitious folk groups from the film "A Mighty Wind"; and, tonight, a dinner and panel discussion to benefit the Chez Panisse Foundation.
For Those Who Like to Read at Dinner Panel discussions on food in literature -- including memoirs, the 19th-century European novel and Jewish and Brazilian works -- will take place at 6 p.m. on April 5, 12 and 18 at the Mercantile Library, 17 East 47th Street.
There was a dinner for the panel and guests afterwards, but none of the witnesses were able to recall whether she stayed for that.
During their after-dinner panel, the tone remained amiable, but Thiel, in particular, managed to get some memorable jabs in.
He has invited all the members of the panel to a dinner at his home to try to strengthen the personal relationships on the committee.
There were to be screenings, panel discussions, a dinner at the embassy prepared by Alice Waters and then finally a concert put on at the National Performing Arts Center to include Yo-Yo Ma and Meryl Streep.
