Tuesday, March 24, 2026<\/p>\n
7:00 p.m. | Kelly Commons, Room 5B<\/p>\n
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The James Patterson Honors Program at Manhattan University is proud to welcome Andrew McCarthy on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. A director, actor, and award-winning travel writer, McCarthy brings a thoughtful and personal lens to storytelling, drawing on decades of creative work in film, television, and narrative nonfiction.<\/p>\n
Andrew McCarthy is the author of four books, Walking with Sam: A Father, A Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain; Brat: An \u201980s Story; Just Fly Away; and The Longest Way Home\u2014all New York Times bestsellers. He is an award-winning travel writer and served for a dozen years as an editor-at-large at National Geographic Traveler.<\/p>\n
Best known as an actor for the past four decades, Andrew has appeared in such iconic films as Pretty in Pink and Less Than Zero. He lives in New York. A complimentary copy of his book, Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America, will be provided.<\/p>\n
This event, Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America, is part of the James Patterson Speaker Series, a cornerstone of the James Patterson Honors Program. Free and open to the public, registration is required.<\/p>\n
Moderator:<\/p>\n
Kelly Marin<\/a>, Ph.D., Chair of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Department and Professor\u00a0of Psychology at Manhattan University<\/p>\n For more information:
Contact Michele Saracino<\/a>, Ph.D. at michele.saracino@manhattan.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, March 24, 2026 7:00 p.m. | Kelly Commons, Room 5B \u00a0 The James Patterson Honors Program at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[86147,2689,75,84,83,2690,9,24,63,2691],"class_list":["post-218495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-andrew-mccarthy","tag-james-patterson","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan-university-honors-program","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-speaker-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}