PEN: A Working Day: Keynote Addresses
Where: The Desmond Tutu Center Refectory, 180 10th Ave., New York City The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State: Writers Respond to What’s Gone Wrong and How to Fix Things In 1986, Norman Mailer, PEN American Center’s then-president, organized a legendary conference titled, The Writer’s ...
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PEN: Standard Talks: And at Night She Summons the Ghosts
Where: The Standard, New York, High Line Room, 848 Washington St., New York City Everybody knows that the average ghost prefers to remain beyond the reaches of reality. But calling forth the literary ghost to roam among the living? Well, that’s an elegant task for an exquisite storyteller. Join host Sunny Bates and other ...
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PEN: De-Gentrify New York and Give Her Back to the World
Where: Old Gym, 268 Mulberry St., New York City In the 1970s politicians and real estate developers promised New Yorkers that an expanded tax base was necessary to pay our bills. Now, NYC is overflowing with rich people and we are losing hospitals, teachers, and bus lines by the day. The rich got richer, and subsequent ...
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PEN: How to Start a Revolution (in the Library): Authors Defect from Corporate Publishing
Where: The Standard Hotel, New York, High Line Room, 848 Washington St., New York City Maverick writers and editors battle mainstream publishing’s single-minded quest for commercial successes, by defecting to independent presses. More than ever before, these risk-taking literary craftsmen are using the digital media to ...
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PEN: The Next Decade in Book Culture
Where: Greenwich House Music School, Renee Weiler Concert Hall, 46 Barrow St., New York City The critic’s voice indelibly shapes the works we read. But in an age when readers are rapidly migrating to Twitter book clubs, literary web sites, and Amazon reader reviews, how will the critic continue to lead literary ...
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PEN: Writing In Treatment with Yael Hedaya (in person)
Where: Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens What time: 7 p.m. Acclaimed Israeli novelist Yael Hedaya (Eden, Accidents: A Novel) was one of the main writers on the Israeli television series Be-tipul (In Treatment), which was the basis for the popular HBO show. Hedaya will discuss the creation and ...
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Thomas Pletzinger & Ross Benjamin
Where: Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY One of Germany’s hottest young author’s, Thomas Pletzinger has received great praise for his novelistic debut, Funeral for a Dog, which is now available in Ross Benjamin’s English translation. The two of them will discuss this book, ...
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