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  • Rilke/Ullmann: The Cornet Rilke

    Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone / speaker
    Shai Wosner, piano

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  • Peter Nadas

    Susan Sontag hailed Péter Nádas’s A Book of Memories: A Novel as “the greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century.

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  • Susan Stewart and Mark Strand

    Susan Stewart’s most recent book of poems is Red Rover—“a wise and troubled lullaby,” wrote Ange Mlinko. Mark Strand’s new collection is Almost Invisible. His “poems resonate with a shimmering sense of the infinite that befits his stature,” wrote Deborah Garrison.

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  • Ivan Klima

    Due to illness, Ivan Klima has had to cancel his appearance on Mon, Feb 6. We do apologize for any inconvenience and hope to reschedule the event at a later date. All ticket buyers will receive refunds.

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  • Pico Iyer and Rececca Solnit

    Pico Iyer’s new book—on hauntedness, fathers and Graham Greene—is The Man Within My Head. Rebecca Solnit’s books include River of Shadows, A Field Guide to Getting Lost and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.

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  • Jean Strouse and Colm Toibin on Alice James

    Upon the republication of Jean Strouse’s Alice James as a New York Review of Books Classic, she and Colm Tóibín discuss the life of William and Henry James’ younger sister.

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  • Words & Music: Federico Garcia Lorca

    “With words one says human things,” Lorca wrote in an early essay.

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  • James Joyce and Food

    Maud Ellmann’s new book examines how these four modernist masters confront the entangled nature of the self.

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  • Brian Turner and Kevin Young

    Introductions by Yusef Komunyakaa and David Lehman.

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  • Children's Reading Series: Jon Scieszka

    Jon Scieszka’s books for kids of all ages include the Time Warp Trio series, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Squids Will Be Squids and The Stinky Cheese Man.

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  • Kathryn Harrison and Lionel Shriver

    Kathryn Harrison’s new novel is Enchantments. “She is one of the most compelling writers I know,” wrote Elizabeth Berg. Lionel Shriver’s new novel is The New Republic. Her work is “tough, complicated, brilliant,” wrote Ruth Franklin.

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  • The Critic's Voice: Marilynne Robinson

    Marilynne Robinson's new collection of essays is When I Was Young I Read Books.

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  • Francisco Goldman and Roger Rosenblatt

    Francisco Goldman’s recent memoir is Say Her Name. Roger Rosenblatt’s new memoir is Kayak Morning.

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  • Children's Reading Series: Jacqueline Woodson

    Jacqueline Woodson “writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story of nearly adolescent children, but a mature exploration of grown-up issues...,” wrote The New York Times.

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  • Heather McHugh and Lucia Perillo

    Due to illness, Heather McHugh will not be able to read with Lucia Perillo on April 26. She will be replaced by the evening’s introducer, Richard Howard, who will read from his own work before introducing Perillo’s reading.

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  • "Our America": Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Ilan Stavans

    A conversation with two of our most esteemed editor-scholars on the relationship between African American and Latino literature.

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  • "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners' Reading

    Formerly called the “Discovery” / The Nation poetry contest, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes are, for the fifth year, presented by Boston Review poetry editor Timothy Donnelly.

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  • John Irving

    A longtime friend of the Poetry Center, John Irving returns to 92Y to read from his new novel, In One Person.

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  • Kay Ryan

    Kay Ryan served as US Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her most recent collection, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011.

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  • The Busch Reading: John Cheever at 100

    On the occasion of John Cheever’s centenary, friends and family gather to remember him and read from his work.

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