Actor-producer-director Griffin Dunne grew up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. Don’t miss hearing the story of his family – a New York Times bestseller named a Best Book of the Year by  NPR, Time, People, and Town & Country magazines.

In this "warm and perceptive memoir" (New York Times), Griffin Dunne brings to life the bold characters of his family and extraordinary life. The producer and star of the now-iconic film After Hours, Dunne attended the parties of uncle John Gregory Dunne and aunt Joan Didion and the Friday Afternoon Club gatherings hosted by his sister and mother. Tragically, in the midst of it all, Griffin’s twenty-two-year-old sister, Dominique, a rising star in Hollywood, was brutally strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, leading to one of the most infamous public trials of the 1980s. The outcome was a travesty of justice that marked the beginning of their father Dominick Dunne’s career as a crime reporter for Vanity Fair and a victims’ rights activist.  For all its jaw-dropping scenes, The Friday Afternoon Club is no mere celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny, and moving characters. Join author and moderator Julie Satow to learn more about Dunne’s family and memoir heralded by journalist Anderson Cooper, "what a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns...a complex family revealed with loving candor. I was blown away by Griffin Dunne’s life and his ability to capture so much of it in these beautifully written pages."

Griffin Dunne has been an actor, producer, and director since the late 1970s. Among his work, he produced and acted in After Hours; he directed Practical Magic and the documentary The Center Will Not Hold about his aunt, Joan Didion. Griffin and his dog, Mary, live in the East Village of Manhattan.

Julie Satow is a journalist and author of The New York Times bestseller, When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, which was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and named Best Book of 2024 by Amazon, the Financial Times, Cosmopolitan, Smithsonian, the New York Post, and Vogue. Her first book, The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR Favorite Book of the Year.