Major events

Thursday May 22

12.30pm

InterContinental Sydney

SMH Dymocks Literary Lunch
Join US author Jonathan Franzen for lunch. $63.
Bookings: 9449 4366.

6-7.30pm

Living in the 70s
The Arthouse Hotel
Put on your gossamer shirt and step back in time with Alison Pressley, Graeme Blundell, Moya Sayer-Jones and Dave Warner in a celebration of fondues, pineapple rings and the handlebar moustache.
Chair: ABC 702 Sydney's Simon Marnie.
$10 at the door.

6pm for 6.30pm

Sex in the City
Seymour Theatre Centre
French art critic Catherine Millet talks about sex, intimacy and love with author and academic Fiona Giles.
$20/$12. Bookings: 9351 7940.
Presented by State of the Arts magazine.

6pm for 6.30pm

Sydney Town Hall talk
Sydney Town Hall
Award-winning British historian Antony Beevor, whose books include Stalingrad and Berlin - Downfall 1945, talks to Bob Carr about war, history and what we've learned from bloody conflict.
$20/$12. Bookings: 9351 7940.

6pm for 6.30pm

The Great Wall - Experiences of China
The Whitlam Library, Cabramatta
Chi Zijian, Ouyang Yu and Ma Jian share the story of their homeland.
Free.