2010 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: New York Stories
The Morgan Library & Museum, Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 7pm
Colm Tóibín; Roxana Robinson; Darryl Pinckney; Quim Monzó
New York seen from close up and afar, by three great writers who were inextricably attached to the city. Henry James, a native New Yorker, left the city for extended periods of time, though the city haunts his work. Edith Wharton was one of the great chroniclers of New York society, high and low. Elizabeth Hardwick, a transplanted Kentuckian, cast her keen eye on the life of the city in the latter half of the twentieth century, when it established itself as the intellectual center of American life. Distinguished contemporary novelists and critics, Colm Tóibín (Brooklyn), Roxana Robinson (Cost), and Darryl Pinckney (High Cotton), who have edited the New York stories of, respectively, James, Wharton, and Hardwick, and the contemporary Catalan writer Quim Monzó, who set his novel in New York, consider the city and the stories it has inspired. Moderated by Edwin Frank, editorial director of NYRB Classics. This program is cosponsored by The Morgan Library & Museum and NYRB Classics. Tickets are $10-15. (palimpsestuous)… (more)
New York seen from close up and afar, by three great writers who were inextricably attached to the city. Henry James, a native New Yorker, left the city for extended periods of time, though the city haunts his work. Edith Wharton was one of the great chroniclers of New York society, high and low. Elizabeth Hardwick, a transplanted Kentuckian, cast her keen eye on the life of the city in the latter half of the twentieth century, when it established itself as the intellectual center of American life. Distinguished contemporary novelists and critics, Colm Tóibín (Brooklyn), Roxana Robinson (Cost), and Darryl Pinckney (High Cotton), who have edited the New York stories of, respectively, James, Wharton, and Hardwick, and the contemporary Catalan writer Quim Monzó, who set his novel in New York, consider the city and the stories it has inspired. Moderated by Edwin Frank, editorial director of NYRB Classics. This program is cosponsored by The Morgan Library & Museum and NYRB Classics. Tickets are $10-15. (palimpsestuous)… (more)
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