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PLEASE NOTE: The date of MFA Vs. NYC has been changed to MARCH 19TH. NEW YORK, March 11, 2014 – Featuring authors ranging from Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) to Robert Caro (The Years of Lyndon Johnson series) to Lore Sigal (Her First American), Creative Writing at The New School presents its spring series of lectures, panel discussions and readings featuring literature’s most influential writers. Read on for highlights, and click here for a regularly updated calendar of writing and literature public programming at The New School. National Book Critics Circle Readings, March 12 at 6:00 P.M. This year’s nominees include Ben Fountain (Billy’s Flynn’s Long Halftime Walk), Robert Caro (The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson), and D.A. Powell (Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys). Awards ceremony follows on March 13. The Auditorium at 66 W 12th Street. Free; No tickets required. Poetry Forum: David Lehman, March 18, at 6:30 P.M. David Lehman’s New and Selected Poems appeared in November 2013 from Scribner.His other books of poetry include Yeshiva Boys (2008), When a Woman Loves a Man (2005), The Evening Sun (2002), and The Daily Mirror (2000), from Scribner, Operation Memory (1990) and An Alternative to Speech (1986) from Princeton. Moderated by Laura Cronk. Klein Conference Room (Room A510), 66 W. 12th Street; $5, free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID. MFA Vs. NYC, March 19 at 6:30 P.M. In a widely read essay entitled “MFA vs NYC,” bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. The book MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction brings together established writers, MFA professors and students, and New York editors, publicists, and agents to talk about these overlapping worlds, and the ways writers make (or fail to make) a living within them. Panel includes Harbach, Elif Batuman, Eric Bennett, Alexander Chee. Moderated by Luis Jaramillo, Interim Director, School of Writing. Klein Conference Room (Room A510), 66 W. 12th Street; $5, free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID. Capitalism: A Ghost Story: An Evening with Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb, March 24 at 7:00 P.M. Areading and conversation with Siddhartha Deb (The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India), and acclaimed novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy on the occasion of the launch of her new book Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Haymarket Books). John L. Tishman Auditorium at the University Center, 63 Fifth Ave. Sold out. Fiction Forum: Lore Sigal, March 31 at 6:30 P.M. Lore Segal’s latest novel, Half the Kingdom, was published by Melville House in 2013. Her other books include Other People’s Houses, first serialized in The New Yorker; Lucinella, republished in 2009 by Melville House; and Her First American, which won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Orozco Room (Room A712), 66 W 12th Street; $5, free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID. EDITOR’S NOTE: CLICK HERE FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF WRITING AND LITERATURE PUBLIC PROGRAMMING. |
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