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Jennifer Egan on How to Create Your Own Rules at PEN
Jennifer Egan on How to Create Your Own Rules at PEN
Earlier in May, Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief for the Slate group, and author Jennifer Egan discussed Egan’s Pulitzer... Read more
15 May 2012
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Lovely Bones: Celebrating Anne Sexton at the Cornelia Street Café
Lovely Bones: Celebrating Anne Sexton at the Cornelia Street Café
The poet Anne Sexton took her own life in 1974, but had she lived, this year would have marked her 83rd birthday. Reason... Read more
22 Nov 2011
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Bringing At-Risk Teens Closer to Home: A Forum on Juvenile Justice at The New School
Bringing At-Risk Teens Closer to Home: A Forum on Juvenile Justice at The New School
The Center for New York City Affairs hosted a forum on February 2 to review the connection between child welfare and juv... Read more
5 Mar 2012
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1hr 32mins
Ranked #4
Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts & Ideas series this month with “The ‘Chindia’ Dialogues,” a three-da... Read more
30 Nov 2011
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54mins
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The Fire in Him: John Hurt Sets Krapp's Record Straight
The Fire in Him: John Hurt Sets Krapp's Record Straight
If there is a lesson to be learned from the post-curtain talk between John Hurt — who has just finished a limited run at... Read more
23 Dec 2011
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Getting Your Irish On at the PEN World Voices Festival
Getting Your Irish On at the PEN World Voices Festival
Comparisons are invidious, but Hugo Hamilton is clearly a successor to the late Frank McCourt, author of the celebrated ... Read more
16 May 2012
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Who Will Rule Britannia? Patrick Jephson Weighs in at Bonham’s
Who Will Rule Britannia? Patrick Jephson Weighs in at Bonham’s
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 86th birthday on April 21, and the entire Commonwealth is preparing to honor her on th... Read more
9 May 2012
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Authors Conjure Up 'Strange Places' in Readings at Happy Ending
Authors Conjure Up 'Strange Places' in Readings at Happy Ending
The theme for the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub in March was Strange Places. Listen to the extraor... Read more
23 Mar 2012
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The Jane Hotel's Connection to the Titanic Draws a Crowd
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New York City has no shortage of sites that have a direct connection to the Titanic. (See our handy map of some of them ... Read more
9 Apr 2012
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Doctorow, Atwood and Amis on America and its Role in Global Political Culture
Doctorow, Atwood and Amis on America and its Role in Global Political Culture
One of the highlights of this year's PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature was a talk between writers E.... Read more
11 May 2012
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #11
Oxymoron: Frustration at Happy Ending
Oxymoron: Frustration at Happy Ending
With the three-month wait for the re-opening of newly renovated Joe’s Pub over at last, you’d think there would be cause... Read more
11 Nov 2011
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Ranked #12
Rushdie Talk on Censorship Wraps Up PEN Festival
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The 2012 PEN World Voices Festival ended with a talk about censorship at the Cooper Union by novelist Salman Rushdie (Mi... Read more
23 May 2012
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Talk to Me: Behaving Badly at Happy Ending
Talk to Me: Behaving Badly at Happy Ending
The Happy Ending Music and Reading series has formed a partnership with the arts colony Yaddo located in Saratoga Spring... Read more
22 Dec 2011
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30mins
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Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger Have High School Reunion at KGB Bar
Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger Have High School Reunion at KGB Bar
Two famed poets, essayists and translators — Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger — recently read from new work at the True ... Read more
7 Nov 2011
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46mins
Ranked #15
The Asia Society Presents Oral Histories from Burma
The Asia Society Presents Oral Histories from Burma
While diplomats and academics met at the General Assembly of the United Nations on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, t... Read more
24 Oct 2011
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23mins
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Janet Malcolm and Ian Frazier Talk Shop at The New Yorker Festival
Janet Malcolm and Ian Frazier Talk Shop at The New Yorker Festival
Late last month, journalist Janet Malcolm had a conversation with New Yorker writer Ian Frazier at The New Yorker Festiv... Read more
18 Oct 2011
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1hr 24mins
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Wrestling with Words: Poet Philip Schultz Talks about Dyslexia
Wrestling with Words: Poet Philip Schultz Talks about Dyslexia
Philip Schultz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Failure," among other books of verse, has written an unexpected wo... Read more
17 Oct 2011
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36mins
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The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera List Center
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“Les chose sont contre nous” ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings’ parodic philosophy resistenti... Read more
26 Sep 2011
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Game of Thrones: Sir Peter Hall and Michael Boyd in Conversation
Game of Thrones: Sir Peter Hall and Michael Boyd in Conversation
In honor of its 50th birthday, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) brought together company founder Sir Peter Hall and c... Read more
5 Aug 2011
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36mins
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'Speak the Speech I Pray You': Directors Weigh in on Bringing Shakespeare to the Stage
'Speak the Speech I Pray You': Directors Weigh in on Bringing Shakespeare to the Stage
The second of four panel discussions held in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) residency at The Park ... Read more
18 Jul 2011
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