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Robert Stone Reads From “Outerbridge Reach” and Ken Kesey Reads From...

Oct 14, 1992 | Views: 40

Robert Stone reads from Outerbridge Reach and Ken Kesey reads from Sailor Song, followed by audience Q&A. Our friend Thomas Beller has written a very touching remembrance of Robert Stone, set at this reading above, for The New Yorker: Thinking about the reading at the Y this week after hearing of Stone’s death, it occurred... More
Ian McEwan: The Children Act

Sep 15, 2014 | Views: 174

Ian McEwan returned to the Poetry Center to open our 76th season. He is interviewed by Isaac Chotiner. His new novel, The Children Act, examines the intersection of faith, family and law through the story of a judge overseeing a difficult case involving parents who refuse treatment for their sick child. “McEwan’s literary gifts are... More
Brushes with Fame – Six Word Memoirs on Strange Celebrity Encounters

Nov 17, 2014 | Views: 84

With Amy Sohn, David Crabb, Lynn Harris, Anthony Giglio, Joe Levy, Tara O’Grady, and former Ike-ette Joshie Armstead, with host Larry Smith. In 2006, SMITH Magazine gave Ernest Hemingway’s legendary six-word story (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”) a personal twist, calling it the Six-Word Memoir. Now, SMITH Magazine presents a series of storytelling shows.... More
P.D. James: A Taste for Death

Nov 10, 1986 | Views: 129

In this audio recording, prolific mystery author P. D. James reads from her Adam Dalgliesh novel A Taste for Death. “I think in my books, the finding of the bodies should be rather terrible. It’s not that I’m deliberately setting out to be horrific or to spill the blood too copiously, but the finding of... More
P.D. James and S.J. Rozan: Mysterious Conversations

Apr 29, 2001 | Views: 159

Award-winning author S.J. Rozan interviews the legendary writer P.D. James on her life and career. More
75 at 75: Mark Strand on Joseph Brodsky

Nov 20, 1978 | Views: 162

Posted on Dec 3, 2014
I was there on the evening of November 20, 1978. I read aloud the English versions of Joseph Brodsky’s poems. But it seems extraordinary to me that I should remember so little of what was by any standard a brilliant performance by the Russian poet. I was probably too concerned with... More
92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Maya Angelou

Jan 11, 1988 | Views: 1,242

Posted on November 20, 2014
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool—and I’m not any of those—to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and... More
92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Gary Snyder

Oct 26, 1992 | Views: 367

Posted on November 20, 2014
There's no question that spending time with your own consciousness is instructive. You learn a lot. You can just watch what goes on in your own mind, and some of the beneficial effects are you get bored with some of your own tapes and quit playing them back to yourself.... More
92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Denise Levertov

Apr 22, 1991 | Views: 423

Posted on November 20, 2014
Where I live in Seattle, I see a good deal more—more sky, more trees. I can see the lake. And from one upstairs window I can see a bit of Mount Rainier—when it’s out. . . . Who would want a mountain that was out all the time? You’d stop... More
75 at 75: Hermione Lee on Elizabeth Bowen – 1954

Feb 21, 1954 | Plays: 91

Posted on Nov 13, 2014
Elizabeth Bowen was often in America, teaching and lecturing, in the 1950s and 1960s, and was a regular at the 92nd Street Y, where she was treated like the undoubted star she was then, a major writer on a level (as her introducer says in one of these recording) with... More
75 at 75: Hermione Lee on Elizabeth Bowen – 1950

Nov 11, 1950 | Plays: 54

Posted on Nov 13, 2014
Elizabeth Bowen was often in America, teaching and lecturing, in the 1950s and 1960s, and was a regular at the 92nd Street Y, where she was treated like the undoubted star she was then, a major writer on a level (as her introducer says in one of these recording) with... More
George R.R. Martin on J.R.R. Tolkien, Birthing Dragons, The Grateful Dead, The Iron...

Oct 26, 2014 | Views: 3,605

George R. R. Martin was here with Laura Miller to talk about his long awaited book, The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones. In this video clip, he talks about the influence of J.R.R. Tolkien on “epic fantasy,” references to The Grateful Dead in his books,... More

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Robert Stone Reads From “Outerbridge Reach” and Ken Kesey Reads From...

Ian McEwan: The Children Act

Brushes with Fame – Six Word Memoirs on Strange Celebrity Encounters

P.D. James: A Taste for Death

P.D. James and S.J. Rozan: Mysterious Conversations

75 at 75: Mark Strand on Joseph Brodsky

92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Maya Angelou

92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Gary Snyder

92Y/The Paris Review Interview Series: Denise Levertov

75 at 75: Hermione Lee on Elizabeth Bowen – 1954

75 at 75: Hermione Lee on Elizabeth Bowen – 1950

George R.R. Martin on J.R.R. Tolkien, Birthing Dragons, The Grateful Dead, The Iron...

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