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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!: A Seussational Celebration of the Genius of Storytelling...

Mar 2, 2015 | Views: 65

Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Celebrate the genius of everybody’s favorite storyteller at this whimsical read-aloud. March 2 is a very special day indeed—not only is it Dr. Seuss’s birthday, but it’s also the first day of the National Education Association’s Read Across America initiative. Hear bestselling authors and media personalities read from their favorite... More
Richard Price Talks with David Simon About His New Novel “The Whites”

Feb 23, 2015 | Views: 127

Richard Price, one of America’s most gifted novelists, has always written brilliantly about cops, criminals and New York City. Now, writing as Harry Brandt, he is poised to win a huge following among all those who hunger for first-rate crime fiction. Join him and David Simon (“The Wire”) for a conversation about The Whites. More
75 at 75: Maxine Hong Kingston on Grace Paley

Nov 29, 1971 | Views: 34

What a jolt—suddenly to hear Grace’s voice, her cough, her footsteps. She’s alive. She’s funny, still making us laugh. But she doesn’t laugh. I hadn’t noticed until hearing this recording, she doesn’t laugh along with us. In fact, the first thing you hear, she’s complaining, “I’ve never not seen the people I’m reading to before.... More
Richard Ford and Lorrie Moore

Feb 12, 2015 | Views: 66

In his new collection of stories, Let Me Be Frank with You, Richard Ford reinvents his beloved character, Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. He has “forged a new way of writing fiction about, and out of, American life that is as revolutionary as Proust’s adventures in time travel,” wrote John Banville. Lorrie... More
What We Write About When We Write About Love

Feb 10, 2015 | Views: 136

A Valentine from Four Distinguished Writers Talking About Our Favorite Emotion. In a way, love is a writer’s only subject, though it usually is disguised by, or filtered through, such matters as war, rebellion, heroism, zeal, ambition, madness, avarice, grief, wonder, innocence, shame and so forth. Under every subject a writer deals with lies love... More
Robert Stone Reads From “Outerbridge Reach” and Ken Kesey Reads From...

Oct 14, 1992 | Views: 58

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: 227

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: 93

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: 168

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: 202

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: 212

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: 1,462

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

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!: A Seussational Celebration of the Genius of Storytelling...

Richard Price Talks with David Simon About His New Novel “The Whites”

75 at 75: Maxine Hong Kingston on Grace Paley

Richard Ford and Lorrie Moore

What We Write About When We Write About Love

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

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