Jessica Hagedorn

Readings by Esmeralda Santiago (The Turkish Lover), Dagoberto Gilb (The Flowers) and Jessica Hagedorn (Dogeaters), three writers who navigate complex loyalties and traverse real and imagined borders in their work.

Twenty years ago, Wendy Salinger founded the Unterberg Poetry Center Schools Project, an outreach program enabling New York City high school students to attend readings and interact with featured authors. Some of these authors, including Donald Antrim, Jessica Hagedorn, Nicole Krauss, Frank McCourt and ... (more)John Edgar Wideman, return to reflect on the writing life. Joining them is Rebecca Pawel, a Schools Project alumna and the author of Death of a Nationalist, which won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel.