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- 42 - Time and Space and Philip Glass: The Iconic Artist Talks at BAM
In 1976, the New York premiere of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s “Einstein on the Beach” captivated audiences, polarized critics and put both artists on the map of contemporary performance art. In four-and-a half hours, its famously reductive score, enigmatic text and limpid, tensile choreography (by Lucinda Childs) teases out the meaning of the time/space continuum.
Fri, 14 Sep 2012 - 68min - 41 - Unhappy Family: Geoffrey Rush and Fred Schepisi Discuss "The Eye of the Storm" at the 92nd Street Y
Geoffrey Rush is one of Australia’s most celebrated exports, a protean character actor whose roles have ranged from the mentally frail pianist David Helfgott (his Oscar-winning performance in “Shine”) to George VI’s speech therapist Lionel Logue (“The King’s Speech”) to the Marquis de Sade (“Quills”).
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 - 14min - 40 - Wanting What You Can't Have: Happy Ending at Joe's PubWed, 05 Sep 2012 - 32min
- 39 - Fighting Words: Churchill's Granddaughter Offers a Model for Leadership
“If you are going to go through hell, keep going.” This is just one of the many robust adages coined by Sir Winston Churchill during World War II.
A new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum called “Churchill: The Power of Words,” which showcased his long, celebrated career as a statesman, writer, and orator, opened on Friday.
Tue, 12 Jun 2012 - 41min - 38 - A Reporter's Perspective on War at PEN World Voices
The PEN America Center’s organizational focus is the effect of world events on the safety and freedom of expression of writers, so the topic of war naturally looms large in its cultural consciousness. As part of the recent PEN World Voices Festival, Polish journalist and author Wojciech Jagielski was interviewed by Joel Whitney, a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics.
Tue, 29 May 2012 - 62min - 37 - Rushdie Talk on Censorship Wraps Up PEN Festival
The 2012 PEN World Voices Festival ended with a talk about censorship at the Cooper Union by novelist Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses).
After the speech, the PEN festival founder had a conversation with writer Gary Shteyngart (The Russian Debutante's Handbook,Super Sad True Love Story).
Wed, 23 May 2012 - 23min - 36 - Getting Your Irish On at the PEN World Voices Festival
Comparisons are invidious, but Hugo Hamilton is clearly a successor to the late Frank McCourt, author of the celebrated “Angela’s Ashes,” in the tradition of Irish memoir.
Hamilton read from his book, “The Speckled People,” as part of the PEN World Voices Festival on May 3. The event was held at Ireland House, a handsome mews building off Washington Square Park that is home to NYU’s Irish studies department. Hamilton was introduced by John Waters, head of the university’s Irish literature program.
Wed, 16 May 2012 - 17min - 35 - Jennifer Egan on How to Create Your Own Rules at PEN
Earlier in May, Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief for the Slate group, and author Jennifer Egan discussed Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, genre-busting novel A Visit from the Goon Squad,and her writing process at The New School. Their conversation was part of the annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
Tue, 15 May 2012 - 50min - 34 - Doctorow, Atwood and Amis on America and its Role in Global Political Culture
One of the highlights of this year's PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature was a talk between writers E.L. Doctorow, Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis. New York Times chief film critic A.O. Scott asked the authors about America and its role in the global political culture at The Times Center.
The Sunday before the talk, Doctorow (Homer & Langley,Ragtime), Atwood (The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace) and Amis (Time's Arrow, The Rachel Papers) had written essays for The Sunday Review section of The Times on the subject.
Fri, 11 May 2012 - 76min - 33 - Who Will Rule Britannia? Patrick Jephson Weighs in at Bonham’sWed, 09 May 2012 - 39min
- 32 - The Jane Hotel's Connection to the Titanic Draws a Crowd
New York City has no shortage of sites that have a direct connection to the Titanic. (See our handy map of some of them below.)
One such landmark is the Jane Hotel, formerly known as the American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute, which on April 19, 1912 was the site of a memorial service for surviving sailors rescued from the Titanic.
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 - 64min - 31 - Authors Conjure Up 'Strange Places' in Readings at Happy EndingFri, 23 Mar 2012 - 32min
- 30 - Bringing At-Risk Teens Closer to Home: A Forum on Juvenile Justice at The New School
The Center for New York City Affairs hosted a forum on February 2 to review the connection between child welfare and juvenile justice in New York City and the state.
The event, entitled “Ties That Bind: Reimagining juvenile justice and child welfare for teens, families and communities,” was intended to coincide with the implementation of key new initiatives that would bring the administration of the intertwined child welfare, juvenile justice and foster care services under New York City jurisdiction.
Mon, 05 Mar 2012 - 92min - 29 - The Fire in Him: John Hurt Sets Krapp's Record Straight
If there is a lesson to be learned from the post-curtain talk between John Hurt — who has just finished a limited run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater in Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” — and philosopher Simon Critchley, it’s that if you throw philosophy at an actor, he’ll throw it right back.
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 - 19min - 28 - Talk to Me: Behaving Badly at Happy Ending
The Happy Ending Music and Reading series has formed a partnership with the arts colony Yaddo located in Saratoga Springs, New York, to present programs featuring writers who have been Yaddo fellows. On December 7th, curator Amanda Stern welcomed three Yaddo alums at the series’ performance home, Joe’s Pub, for a program entitled “Reality and Scandal.”
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 - 30min - 27 - Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts & Ideas series this month with “The ‘Chindia’ Dialogues,” a three-day forum that examined the confluence of the world’s two most powerful developing economies.
The organizers chose an unusual point of departure for event — not a historical overview, but a conversation between Jonathan Spence, former Sterling Professor of History at Yale, and the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 - 54min - 26 - Lovely Bones: Celebrating Anne Sexton at the Cornelia Street Café
The poet Anne Sexton took her own life in 1974, but had she lived, this year would have marked her 83rd birthday. Reason enough, thought the actor Paul Hecht, to organize an elegant tribute to her at the Cornelia Street Café on Nov. 14.
Tue, 22 Nov 2011 - 52min - 25 - Oxymoron: Frustration at Happy Ending
With the three-month wait for the re-opening of newly renovated Joe’s Pub over at last, you’d think there would be cause for celebration. But Happy Ending Music & Reading series host and curator Amanda Stern decided on “frustration” as the theme of her series opener, inviting authors Seth Fried, Jesse Ball, and Paul La Farge to vent, with plangent musical guest Anni Rossi adding the low notes.
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 - 24 - Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger Have High School Reunion at KGB Bar
Two famed poets, essayists and translators — Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger — recently read from new work at the True Story: Non-Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar in the East Village.
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 - 46min - 23 - The Asia Society Presents Oral Histories from Burma
While diplomats and academics met at the General Assembly of the United Nations on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, the Asia Society hosted "Voices from Burma," an event honoring the stories of Burmese refugees and political prisoners.
Actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, actor Kathryn Grody, writers Amitav Ghosh and Deborah Eisenberg, and former political prisoner Law Eh Soe read from Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime. Veteran journalist, educator, and current Director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell opened and closed the event.
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 - 23min - 22 - Janet Malcolm and Ian Frazier Talk Shop at The New Yorker Festival
Late last month, journalist Janet Malcolm had a conversation with New Yorkerwriter Ian Frazier at The New Yorker Festival. Malcolm's writing has been appearing in The New Yorker — as well as in other outlets — for almost 50 years.
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 - 84min - 21 - Wrestling with Words: Poet Philip Schultz Talks about DyslexiaMon, 17 Oct 2011 - 36min
- 20 - The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera List Center
“Les chose sont contre nous” ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings’ parodic philosophy resistentialism*. But Professor Jane Bennett of Johns Hopkins University doesn’t think so. (*For more on resistentialism, check out: Paul Jennings, "Report on Resistentialism," The Jenguin Pennings, 1963.)
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 - 39min - 19 - Game of Thrones: Sir Peter Hall and Michael Boyd in ConversationFri, 05 Aug 2011 - 36min
- 18 - 'Speak the Speech I Pray You': Directors Weigh in on Bringing Shakespeare to the Stage
The second of four panel discussions held in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) residency at The Park Avenue Armory focused on “Directing Shakespeare." David Farr, the RSC's associate director and director of "King Lear" and "The Winter’s Tale" in the company's New York repertoire was joined by Arin Arbus, Associate Artistic Director of The Theater for a New Audience; Karin Coonrod, the founding director of the Arden Party Theater Company; and Mark Lamos, Artistic Director of the Westport County Playhouse.
Mon, 18 Jul 2011 - 49min - 17 - Talk To Me: A Happy Beginning for Happy Ending
The Happy Ending Music & Reading Series is celebrating a happy beginning. The series performance on June 8 at Joe’s Pub marked the launch of Happy Ending’s partnership with Yaddo, an artists’ working community based in Saratoga Springs, New York. Starting next fall, the series will produce three shows featuring entirely Yaddo-affiliated artists. Wednesday night, Suzanne Bocanegra and Kyle deCamp performed a collaborative visual and performance piece, and Amor Towles read from his new novel.
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 - 28min - 16 - Talk to Me: New Orleans as Paradox
New Orleans manages to leave a mark, good or bad, on its tourists, natives, and those who've decided to take up roots there. Most people who visit have a great time, but many can attest to how the city's unique insular culture, history and traditions can be as frustrating as they are fascinating. As part of the 2011 Pen World Voices Festival of International Literature, five distinguished New Orleans writers — Sarah Broom, Richard Campanella, Nicholas Lemann, Fatima Sheik and Billy Sothern — read selections from their recently published books and essays. Through their writing, each author has made sense of the nuanced complexities that make up this Louisiana port city. Panel moderator and novelist Nathanial Rich called the discussion a manifesto to the city.
Wed, 11 May 2011 - 69min - 15 - Talk to Me: The PEN World Voices Festival Takes on Corporate PublishingTue, 10 May 2011 - 66min
- 14 - Talk to Me: From Russia with Love at the Greene Space
Are you craving a little continental culture? Do you need a good book recommendation? Both were on offer on Tuesday, April 26, when New York Public Radio's Jerome L. Greene Space hosted a literary salon as part of the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival. The event: “From Russia with Love,” featured Russian poetry, criticism, and classical music.
Fri, 06 May 2011 - 59min - 13 - Talk to Me: China in Two ActsThu, 05 May 2011 - 66min
- 12 - Behind 'War Horse': The Puppeteers at The New School
One of the most powerful aspects of “War Horse,” which opened at Lincoln Center on April 14, is, of course, the astonishing puppets. Minutes into this riveting tale of a boy and his horse against the background of World War I (see our feature here), the audience has completely invested the “horses” with life.
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 - 68min - 11 - Cornelia Street Café Says Happy Birthday to ShakespeareFri, 29 Apr 2011 - 35min
- 10 - Talk to Me: Stranger Performances
A large swatch of artist Laurel Nakadate's work features performances in which she performs acts with strangers—and videotapes them. Nakadate recently discussed her work at UnionDocs as part of New York's "Walls and Bridges" conference.
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 - 18min - 9 - Talk To Me: Art, Pornography and Censorship
On Thursday, a conversation about censorship, art and morality took place at the New School's Arnold Hall between two American authors and a pair of French philosophers. The discussion was part of the Walls and Bridges lecture series.
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 - 82min - 8 - Talk to Me: The Yale Review Celebrates 100 Years
On Saturday, May 26, "The Writers Studio Reading Series" celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Yale Review, with authors who have some connection to the quarterly. The lineup of authors, including Louise Glück, Caryl Phillips, Edmund White and Michael Cunningham, read from their works at Le Poisson Rouge. All of the readers—with the exception of Edmund White, who has been published in the journal—teach at Yale.
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 - 77min - 7 - Talk to Me: Celebrating 100 Years of Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams, perhaps best-known for his plays "Streetcar Named Desire," "The Glass Menagerie," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," is the author of a "massive body of work," in the words of N.Y.U. drama professor Joe E. Jeffreys. On the occasion of the centennial of Williams' birth—the playwright was born March 26, 1911—Jeffreys hosted the first of a three-part series at Manhattan's Museum of Arts and Design entitled The Kindness of Strangeness.(Williams fans will recognize the title of the panel from an achingly memorable line delivered by Blanche DuBoisin the playwright's "StreetcarNamed Desire.")
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 - 107min - 6 - Talk to Me: Story Prize: Short Stories, Big Prizes
Anticipation was high at the Story Prize event at The New School's Tishman Auditorium last week. The three Story Prize finalists—Anthony Doerr ("Memory Wall"), Yiyun Li ("Gold Boy, Emerald Girl") and Suzanne Rivecca ("Death is Not an Option") read from their short story collections, knowing that, at the conclusion of the reading, one of them would win $20,000. Anthony Doerr came out the winner.
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 - 88min - 5 - Talk to Me: Bill Callahan's Letters to Emma Bowlcut
Nearly two feet of newly fallen snow proved little obstacle for fans to clap their eyes on musician Bill Callahan on a recent winter's night. Callahan, known to many by the name Smog, drew a hip crowd to Spoonbill and Sugartown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a reading from his novel, Letters to Emma Bowlcut. The book, read in the author’s halting, sonorous voice, consists of correspondence written by a man to a woman he met at a party. Readers aren’t provided much context for the meeting but can sense the relationship develop as the letters progress.
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 - 18min - 4 - Talk to Me: Zadie Smith and Gemma Sieff
English writer Zadie Smith has accomplished so much in the past 11 years. Her first novel, White Teeth, was published in 2000 before she even turned 25. Now, she's got two additional novels, a number of short stories, and a growing body of criticism under her belt. Smith was also named a tenured creative writing professor at New York University last September and was recently made the critic for Harper's Magazine's "New Books" column.
Mon, 07 Feb 2011 - 60min - 3 - From Belarus with Love and Pain: The Belarus Free Theatre at Le Poisson Rouge
"World leaders need to answer to artists." This was the rallying cry of Natalia Kaliada, artistic director of the Belarus Free Theatre, at a benefit for the embattled dissident troupe organized by the PEN American Center that was held at Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday. She added “politicians do not have steps; they have just words.”
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 - 48min - 2 - True Story Non-Fiction: Vivian Gornick on WorkTue, 18 Jan 2011 - 29min
- 1 - Talk to Me: Old Friends and New Friends at Happy EndingMon, 10 Jan 2011 - 23min
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