The new school public programs: literary events
November-December 2009 update
NEW YORK, October 27, 2009—The New School Writing Program rounds out its fall programs with a wide and engaging range of literary events and readings. The offerings run the gamut from nonfiction to poetry to writing for children forums that feature some of the most gifted writers and thinkers of our times.
Roberta Smith (Nov. 5) will be speaking in the third of the AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lectures at The New School, an annual event addressing current issues in the world of art criticism. Her lecture will present a view of the craft, process and usage of art criticism, and the rising challenges of crisis-management and relevance-maintenance. George Packer (Dec. 9) will read and discuss his work, including his lastest book InterestingTimes: Writingfrom a Turbulent Decade. Acclaimed poet Mark Doty (Dec. 14) reads and discusses his work, including Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.
Other highlights include the Food Writing Forum with Judith Jones (Nov. 10), The New Yorker Theater: A Talk with Toby Talbot on Life in Art-House Cinema (Nov. 12), The National Book Awards Reading (Nov. 17), and Writing for Children Forum with Pat Cummings (Dec. 8), among many other events.
About the New School Writing Program
The New School has been a vital center for writing and its instruction since 1931, when Gorham Munson, a Manhattan editor and influential partisan of the Alfred Stieglitz circle, introduced his now-legendary workshop in creative writing. Since 1996, The New School has offered a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree with concentrations in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and writing for children. Founded by poet and biographer Robert Polito, the MFA program marks the latest transformation in the school’s commitment to creative writing. Over seven decades of steady innovation, The New School’s writing faculty has featured many of America’s most important poets, novelists, literary critics, and editors, including Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, Robert Lowell, and Frank O’Hara. The current faculty includes Francine Prose, Helen Schulman, Stephen Wright, Dale Peck, Vivian Gornick, Susan Cheever, Abigail Thomas, Honor Moore, Suzanna Lessard, and David Lehman. For more information, visit www.writing.newschool.edu.
EDITOR’S NOTE: FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS AVAILABLE HERE
All public programs are subject to change.
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