Literary
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75 at 75: Chris Kraus on Mary McCarthy
A special project for 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s 75th anniversary and beyond, 75 at 75 invites authors to...
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Truman Capote Reads Breakfast at Tiffany’s
“If there’s one thing I loathe, it’s men who bite!” So exclaims Holly Golightly in the opening pages...
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75 at 75: Sheila Heti on Truman Capote
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
“Just a minute while I stop being vain,” Truman Capote says, and one... -
W. D. Snodgrass: “The Lovers Go Fly a Kite” and other poems
W. D. Snodgrass made six appearances at 92Y’s Poetry Center between 1959 and 1997. In this program, he...
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Nadine Gordimer: A Style of Her Own and The Bridegroom
Nadine Gordimer appeared at 92nd Street Y early in her career to read and discuss the short stories...
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Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Playwright Arthur Miller reads excerpts from Death of a Salesman.
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75 at 75: Jonathan Ames on Arthur Miller
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
Arthur Miller’s voice reminds me of Al Pacino’s. Same kind of New York... -
W. H. Auden: “Bucolics” and “Horae Cononicae”
In one of his many visits to 92nd Street Y, poet W. H. Auden reads from a selection...
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75 at 75: Cynthia Ozick on W. H. Auden
Posted on Feb 20, 2014
Ah, the fabled Sixties and Seventies! Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs! The glorious... -
75 at 75: Helen Vendler on Wallace Stevens
Posted on Nov 14, 2013
When I first heard Wallace Stevens’ voice it was by chance: a friend... -
75 at 75: Forrest Gander on Marianne Moore
Posted on Mar 27, 2014
It is October 30, 1954, three years after the publication of Marianne Moore’s... -
Marianne Moore reads The Icosasphere
Marianne Moore reads The Icosasphere, October 30, 1954 at the 92nd Street Y. Listen to the full event.
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75 at 75: Hermione Lee on Elizabeth Bowen – 1954
Posted on Nov 13, 2014
Elizabeth Bowen was often in America, teaching and lecturing, in the 1950s and... -
William Carlos Williams: A Sort of a Song
The first-ever Poetry Center reading was given by William Carlos Williams in October of 1939. In this selection,...
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75 at 75: Kay Ryan on William Carlos Williams
Posted on Oct 16, 2013
Listening to this old recording of William Carlos Williams reading at the Y...
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