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“Mothers and Daughters” at the Brooklyn Book Festival
The 11 AM panel “Mothers & Daughters” at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival, moderated by Kaylie Jones (Lies My Mother Never Told Me) and featuring Marlon James (The Book of Night Women), Elizabeth Nunez (Anna In-Between), and Jayne Anne Phillips (Lark & Termite, MotherKind) addressed the complicated relationships between women and their growing daughters.... »
French-American & Florence Gould Foundation’s 23rd Annual Translation Awards A Haven from the Storm, but Not from Controversy
“I’m Brodeck and I had nothing to do with it. I insist on that. I want everyone to now. I had no part in it, and once I learned what had happened, I would have preferred never to mention it again. I would have liked to bind my memory fast and keep it that... »
Rachel Shukert & Emily Gould on Sexiness, Memoir, and the Smush Room
Method acting. Cunnilingus. Book covers. The smush room. Rachel Shukert and Emily Gould left no stone unturned in their conversation about writing for an audience, letting it all out , and living it up. Tonight’s event was part of Greenlight Bookstore’s monthly Author/Blogger pairings, hosted by Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com. In this case, both... »
“Flavor Tripping” for Truong
She falls for names and what they evoke: Canned peaches. Dill. Orange sherbet. Parsnip (to her great regret). »
2010 PEN World Voices Festival: 150 Writers, 40 Countries, 7 Days
Monday, April 26 7 p.m. The Diversity Test: Gender and Literature in Translation With Lorraine Adams, Alex Epstein, Andrea Levy, and Norman Rush; moderated by Claire Messud Tuesday, April 27 7 p.m. The 2010 PEN Literary Gala Wednesday, April 28 10 a.m The Work Before the Work: A Special Program for... »
Experiencing Salinger: the Letters, the Criticism, and the Characters
Too often, a writer dies and, for a moment, their works can be found everywhere as people mourn before the media moves on to the next news item. Though today marks the last day that J.D. Salinger’s letters are on public display at the Morgan Library and Museum, the spate of digital and print... »
What happens when Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Duras make dinner together? Irina Brook’s “La Vie Matérielle”
"You say I idealize women? Possibly. Who can say. What’s wrong with a woman being idealized a bit now and then?" – Marguerite Duras "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size." – Virginia Woolf »