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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 High School Students With Annecy Báez, Rawi Hage, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,... »
Burn This Book Release Party
The Right to Read book release party/1st Anniversary Celebration of HarperCollins Emerging Professionals at Housing Works Bookstore Café on Thursday night proved that the days of the book party are far from over. The high-ceilinged store was abuzz with the young publishing crowd, stacks of books looking down over the twenty-and-thirty-somethings sampling the abundant wine... »
Love and Lightning: Toni Morrison’s “Love”
His soft eyes stare out invitingly from the portrait above the bed, but his lips aren’t talking. Bill Cosey has been dead for 25 years. And women in the small town of Silk are still scratching at each other over him. Toni Morrison paints a disturbing, delicate, and erotic portrait of female friendship in Love, her... »