Center for Fiction Honors Jamaica Kincaid
This year's Clifton Fadiman Medal was presented to Jamaica Kincaid for her coming of age novel Annie John. The award, established by the Center for Fiction in 2000, recognizes a book worthy of...
View ArticleTalk to Me: Shirley Hazzard on 'Fire'
Authors Shirley Hazzard and Richard Ford had a tête-à-tête about writing, poetry and much more at the 92nd Street Y for the PEN World Voice Festival. The chemistry between the two writers made for a...
View ArticleTalk to Me: Understanding Anne Frank's Diary
The Diary of Anne Frank continues to impact everyone—from grade-school students to scholars and artists. Three writers and experts on Anne Frank discussed the young girl's influential work at the PEN...
View ArticleLove, Marriage, and Cruelty: Alan Rickman Explains Strindberg’s 'Creditors'
The packed house at BAM's Harvey Theater was probably eager to have a look at the protean actor whose dulcet malevolence has brought many nasty characters to life, including Professor Snape in the...
View ArticleTalk to Me: Utopia and Dystopia at PEN
PEN's World Voices Festival brought Russian poet Inga Kuznetsova, Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk and New York's own Jonathan Lethem together for a conversation about utopia...
View ArticleCelebrating Moms and Motherhood
The StoryCorps project invites people from all over the country to share and preserve stories from their lives. The organization, based in Brooklyn, has recorded more than 30,000 personal tales in the...
View ArticleTalk to Me: Happy Birthday, Will Shakespeare
The Cornelia Street Café celebrates William Shakespeare’s birth each year by bringing to the stage actors to read a selection of the bard's sonnets. Robin Hirsch was the master of ceremonies, Paul...
View ArticleTaming the Gods with Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma, author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, sat with Columbia University professor Andrew Delbanco during the Pen World Voices Festival. The two intellectuals met...
View ArticleTalk to Me: Patti Smith Chats with Jonathan Lethem
Turns out, Jonathan Lethem has been a fan of Patti Smith's music since he was hanging out at CBGB as a tween. In their talk from this year's PEN World Voices Festival, the two writers discussed their...
View ArticleGlobal Voices at the PEN Festival
Salman Rushdie and Patti Smith were just two of the many literary stars who kicked off the 2010 Pen World Voices Festival at The 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. The festival showcased writers...
View ArticleTalk to Me: Are Delis Worth Saving?
Arthur Schwartz, food maven and cookbook author, has always had strong opinions about Jewish food — including everything from where to get the best pastrami in New York to the phrase “matzo ball soup.”...
View ArticleThere is No Farewell to Arms: War and the Novel at PEN
Novelists from Afghanistan, Israel, Romania, and Spain discussed the way war has shaped their lives and their work, as part of the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival. The event was held in...
View ArticleFront Lines and Headlines: A PEN Panel on Covering War
Five top war correspondents and writers talked about what motivates their work, as well as the role of the journalist in modern conflict, as part of a PEN World Voices Festival panel held at Le Poisson...
View ArticleFinding Your Inner Snark: New Yorker Cartoonists at Happy Ending
Like rich people, cartoonists are different from you and me. They see the world as a series of absurd scenes awaiting captions.Three New Yorker cartoonists--Drew Bernavich, Liza Donnelly, and Carolita...
View ArticleRobert Moses vs. Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses are routinely pitted against each other--or at least their philosophies are--in conversations regarding street life and car and highway culture in New York City. Earlier...
View ArticleDavid Remnick On Obama
David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine, engaged in a candid and casual conversation about his new book, "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama," at Barnes & Noble, Union Square on...
View ArticleMatvei Yankelevich and Rob Fitterman at the Poetry Project
The Poetry Project held a reading on a recent humid Wednesday evening at St. Mark's Church in the East Village featuring the contemporary poets Matvei Yankelevich and Robert Fitterman. Both poets are...
View ArticleJoshua Foer and Francine Prose
Readings from a memory champion and about a champion of recorded memories.The opening night of this season's True Story: The KGB Nonfiction Reading Series—a, you guessed it, nonfiction reading series...
View ArticleTalk to Me: Scalding Debate at the Tea Party Panel
If anything could create a heated debate at 10 AM on a Saturday morning it would be politics. And of all the politics around, the Tea Party is almost guaranteed to fan the fire.That's precisely what...
View ArticleTalk to Me: New Yorkers Debate Gay Rights
This year’s New Yorker Festival featured a panel on gay marriage--an appropriate topic given this month's onslaught of gay hate crimes, suicides and statements from elected officials about gay rights....
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