Events : Writing Jewish Worlds
Writing Jewish Worlds
Mikhal Dekel, Marianne Hirsch, Lara Vapnyar, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum
Join authors Mikhal Dekel (English, City College), Marianne Hirsch (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia), Nancy K. Miller (Comparative Literature, English and French, The Graduate Center, CUNY), Lara Vapnyar (Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY), and Wayne Koestenbaum (English, The Graduate Center, CUNY) as they discuss the genesis of their recent books, the rewards and impasses of writing about Jewish subjects, and the tensions between the personal and historical motivations of their work— whether in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary criticism or history.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities, the PhD Program in English, and MEMEAC
Fri., Nov. 18, 2011
4:00 PM
English Lounge
(Room 4406)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016