Weill Art Gallery,
New York
A look at the life and work of one of England's finest 20th-century novelists by one of its most accomplished biographers...
Great Neck Plaza literary arts events
On Penelope Fitzgerald With Hermione Lee
Sunday, Nov 16
12:00p
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins And Paula Vogel
Thursday, May 7
8:15p
Buttenwieser Hall,
New York
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who won Best New Plays at this year's OBIE Awards for Appropriate and An Octoroon, has two new plays premiering in the coming months: War at Yale Repertory and Gloria; or Am...
Emma Donoghue And Ruth Rendell
Monday, Nov 17
8:00p
Kaufmann Concert Hall,
New York
Emma Donoghue's latest novel, a murder mystery set in nineteenth-century San Francisco, is Frog Music...
Gregory Maguire
Saturday, Dec 13
12:30p
Weill Art Gallery,
New York
Load your family into the time machine and travel to czarist Russia with Gregory Maguire-the genius behind Wicked-in his new fantasy novel, Egg and Spoon...
Robert Kelly And Sinéad Morrissey
Thursday, May 14
8:15p
Buttenwieser Hall,
New York
In more than 50 books, Robert Kelly has given readers "dream narratives, elegies, prayers, anecdotes, parables, dialogues, and folktales from a land that may not exist," wrote Bookforum...
Chris Van Allsburg
Saturday, Nov 15
12:30p
Weill Art Gallery,
New York
Do pet-store hamsters hunger for freedom? They do in Chris Van Allsburg's heartwarming new picture book, The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie...
The Tenth Muse With Rita Dove
Thursday, Apr 30
8:15p
Buttenwieser Hall,
New York
Awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2012, Rita Dove was praised by President Obama for "creating works that are equal parts beauty, lyricism, critique, and politics . . ...
On James Merrill
Sunday, Apr 12
11:00a
Weill Art Gallery,
New York
Upon publication of a new biography of the poet by Langdon Hammer, his friends gather to discuss his life and work...
New York Intellectuals: A Group Portrait With Edward Mendelson
Sunday, Feb 22
11:00a
Weill Art Gallery,
New York
Drawing on newly published letters and diaries, Edward Mendelson offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth-century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dw...
On Elizabeth Bishop with Colm Tóibín
Sunday, Apr 19
11:00a
Weill Art Gallery,
New York
“Elizabeth Bishop began with the idea that little is known and that much is puzzling,” Colm Tóibín has written...
Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners' Reading
Monday, May 4
8:15p
Buttenwieser Hall,
New York
The Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes are presented by the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center and Boston Review...
Derangement of the Senses
Monday, Nov 24
7:00p
Le Poisson Rouge (gallery),
Astoria
Derangement of the Senses is a multimedia literary reading featuring some of NYC’s most exciting writers, storytellers, musicians, and burlesque performers...
Patry Francis & Caroline Leavitt
Sunday, Nov 16
7:00p
KGB Bar,
New York
Patry Francis is the acclaimed author of The Liar's Diary, (Dutton 2007), which The New York Daily News called "outright chilling," and which was a Booksense notable book and Target pick...
Inspired Word presents We Heart NYC Writers Night + Open Mic - Poetry & Prose
Friday, Nov 28
7:00p
Le Poisson Rouge (gallery),
Astoria
This is a celebration of New York City writers of all types – poets, novelists, journalists, short story writers...
The Disagreement presents - Failure
Wednesday, Dec 3
6:30p
Le Poisson Rouge (gallery),
Astoria
On December 3, The Disagreement presents Failure, bringing you two poets and two fiction writers, each with their own take on life and thwartedness...
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