Students Get the Spotlight at Parsons Art and Design Festival
This weekend, Parsons The New School for Design kicked off its inaugural "Parsons Festival 2011," which showcases the work of its burgeoning student designers, filmmakers, architects, and other...
View ArticleTalk to Me: The PEN World Voices Festival Takes on Corporate Publishing
While PEN is often at the forefront of debates and initiatives to do with the more obvious forms of oppression against writers — isolation, censorship, imprisonment — it is also ready to tackle the...
View ArticleShakespearean Sages: Peter Brook and Michael Boyd in Conversation
Peter Brook was a legendary director with the Royal Shakespeare Company (R.S.C.) in the 1960s and 1970s; Michael Boyd is the current Artistic Director. The two were recently brought together in the...
View ArticleThe Word as Sword: Reza Aslan at Poet's House
As the Middle East continues to feel the tremors of revolution from all across the landscape, Dr. Reza Aslan’s book “Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East” offers a timely...
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Does It All End Here? Searching for Harry Potter's Successor
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” raked in $158.4 million domestically over the weekend, breaking records which "The Dark Knight" had held, according to Warner Bros. Although the movie's...
View Article'Speak the Speech I Pray You': Directors Weigh in on Bringing Shakespeare to...
The second of four panel discussions held in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) residency at The Park Avenue Armory focused on “Directing Shakespeare." David Farr, the RSC's associate...
View ArticleBorders Could Close Book Stores as soon as Friday
It looks like the final chapter for Borders, the Michigan-based big-box book, music and media seller. The company could begin closing its remaining 399 stores, five of which are in New York City, as...
View ArticleFirst New York Poetry Festival Takes Over Governors Island
The First Annual New York Poetry Festival takes place this weekend in and among the green lawns, rows of London Plane trees and historic brick houses of Governors Island. More than 130 poets from...
View ArticleGot Overdue Fines at City Library Branches? Forget About It.
Forgot to return a library book or DVD? Got library fines that you are reluctant to pay? The solution is here. Programs at libraries in Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island are helping...
View ArticleTitan Books to Publish Mickey Spillane Crime Novels
Gumshoe fans got some good news this week. Titan Books has plans to publish three unfinished Mickey Spillane crime novels, all of them starring the hard-boiled vigilante P.I. Mike Hammer.Spillane, who...
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New Brooklyn Writers Join Old Hands at Fort Greene Park Lit Fest
On Saturday, some 30 young writers will read poetry and fiction alongside well-known Brooklyn writers at Fort Greene Park's monument. The younger set, aged 7 to 17, have been working with the New York...
View ArticleThe Truth, in Many Languages, Comes to Governor's Island
8/26/11 UPDATE: Governors Island will be closed on Saturday and Sunday due to Hurricane Irene, and all programs and exhibits have been cancelled, including The Cause Collective’s “The Truth Is I Am...
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WNYC's Guide to 9/11 Arts Events
GoThis month, cultural institutions around the city are paying respect to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks through literature, visual arts, theater, dance, music, and film....
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WNYC's Picks for the Brooklyn Book Festival
More than 260 authors and panelists will be in downtown Brooklyn on Sunday for the sixth annual Brooklyn Book Festival. Panels are devoted to a wide range of topics during the day-long free fest....
View ArticleCity Libraries Want Young Readers to Turn Over a New Leaf
Benevolence is the latest thing young patrons can check out with their library cards.A program called the "New Chapter" that started on Thursday will forgive fines on overdue library books for patrons...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg's 'Kaddish' Gets the One-Man Show Treatment
Fifty years ago, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg published "Kaddish." The 1961 poem is about Ginsberg coming of age in Paterson, New Jersey and his troubled relationship with his mentally ill mother.A new...
View ArticleNew York's Comic Con Kicks Off in Manhattan, Superheroes and All
New York Comic Con kicked off at the Javits Center on Thursday, and fans were out in full force.Only those with four-day VIP passes and industry professionals, including writers and artists, had access...
View ArticleJoan Didion Explores the Death of a Daughter in 'Blue Nights'
Joan Didion's latest book, "Blue Nights," explores the death of her 39-year old adopted daughter Quintana. It's an event, “I hadn't dealt with it at any level, and I needed to,” she told WNYC's Leonard...
View ArticleRent Reduction Allows St. Mark's Bookshop to Stay Open
The financially struggling St. Mark's Bookshop in the East Village will stay open after its landlord, Cooper Union, agreed to reduce its rent by 12.5 percent and forgive $7,500 in back rent. "We are...
View ArticleLydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger Have High School Reunion at KGB Bar
Two famed poets, essayists and translators — Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger — recently read from new work at the True Story: Non-Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar in the East Village.Davis ("The...
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