A centenary tribute to the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and an exhibition that includes letters, photographs and memorabilia from Thomas’s visits to the United States, presented by the Unterberg Poetry Center, will be among the highlights of the 92nd Street Y’s wide-ranging 2014-15 season of readings, lectures and discussions. The Y has a particular affinity for Thomas, who made his American debut there in 1950, and returned to give the world premiere of “Under Milk Wood” in 1953. He will be commemorated in a program on Oct. 26. The exhibition opens the same day.
But if Thomas is not your cup of tea, the Y’s “Talks” series, which the Y announced on Monday, will include an evening with Jimmy Page, the guitarist who founded Led Zeppelin, who will be discussing his autobiography, “Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page” (Nov. 3), and readings by Ian McEwan (Sept. 15), Margaret Atwood (Nov. 11) and Ruth Rendell, in her first New York reading (Nov. 17). Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of “The Remains of the Day” will give a reading from his new book, “The Buried Giant,” his first novel in a decade (March 18). And in a tribute to Eudora Welty, Olympia Dukakis will give a reading of Welty’s “Asphodel” (March 11).
Among the Y’s film offerings is a series in which the author Thane Rosenbaum will discuss “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” with the Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer (Oct. 21) and will discuss Theo van Gogh’s “Submission” with Bret Stephens and the activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Oct. 22) after screenings. And the violinist Joshua Bell will discuss “The Return of the Violin,” a film about the strange case of Bronislaw Huberman’s Stradivarius violin, which was stolen from his dressing room at Carnegie Hall in 1936 and was missing for nearly 50 years (Dec. 3).
Among the season’s onstage interviews, Seth Meyers will interview Amy Poehler (Oct. 28); Alec Baldwin will interview Dick Cavett (Nov. 4) and Gloria Steinem will speak with Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York. Other events touch on dance, food, health, music and politics. The full schedule is available at 92y.org.
An earlier version of this post gave an incorrect date for a program commemorating Dylan Thomas. It is Oct. 26, not Oct. 27. The post also misstated Thomas's birth date. It is Oct. 27, not Oct. 26. The post also reversed the identities of participants in one event. Alec Baldwin is to interview Dick Cavett; not the reverse. The post also misstated the title of a film to be shown. It is "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," not "Who Shot Liberty Valance."