Calendar Event Detail

Event Name:

PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL: Contemporary Writers on the Classics

Address:

Baruch Performing Arts Center, Engelman Recital Hall, 55 Lexingt
New York, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Thu May 3 2012 at 2:30 PM
Ends:	Thu May 3 2012 at 4:00 PM

Hosting Organization:

PEN World Voices Festival

Contact Name:

Elisabeth Weinstein

Contact Email Address:

pen@pen.org

Contact Phone Number:

(212) 334-1660

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Event Cost:

$0.00

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Event Description:

PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature presents the FREE PUBLIC LITERARY EVENT: "Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics" on Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 2:30pm at Baruch College. In his famous essay “Why Read the Classics?” Italo Calvino writes: “The classics are books that exert a peculiar influence, both when they refuse to be eradicated from the mind and when they conceal themselves in the folds of memory, camouflaging themselves as the collective or individual unconscious.” How does this “peculiar influence” resonate for the writer? John Brenkman, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, will engage a lively group of panelists including radical thinker Giannina Braschi, author of "United States of Banana", Romanian novelist Gabriela Adamesteanu, and Bronx poet Laurie Sheck. All are welcome