Recorded on Thursday,
January 11, 2007
Time: 53 minutes 59 seconds
43.3 MB
What you will hear:
A unique series
for sophisticated writers, readers, and eaters,
Eat, Drink & Be Literary continues
the momentum of the past two sell-out series,
bringing major contemporary authors to BAMcafé
for intimate dinners, readings, and discussions
that are always entertaining and engaging.
There is a brief introduction
by Harold Augenbraum, executive director of
the National Book Foundation, presenter of the
National Book Awards. Francine Prose then reads
from her new book Reading Like A Writer,
an interview follows by moderator Brigid
Hughes. Prose talks candidly about her teaching
style, the issues that inform her work and gives
insight into how her style of reading has influenced
her writing. An audience Q&A complete the
podcast.
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| Photo:
Lisa Yuskavage |
The featured author and moderator is:
Francine
Prose
"Prose masterfully
meditates on how quality reading informs great
writing, which will warm the cold, jaded hearts
of even the most frustrated, unappreciated and
unpublished writers."
—PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY ON READING
LIKE A WRITER
"Too often students
are being taught to read as if literature were
some kind of ethics class or civics class—or
worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact,
the important thing is the way the writer uses
the language. I think there are writers who
would be read more—and, conversely, writers
who would never be read at all—if people
actually looked at how well or how badly they
wrote."—FRANCINE PROSE
A distinguished critic,
essayist, and novelist, Francine Prose is the
author of fourteen works of fiction, including
A Changed Man and Blue Angel,
which was a finalist for the National Book Award,
and the recent non- fiction book Reading
Like a Writer. She has taught literature
and writing at Harvard, the University of Arizona,
the University of Utah, Bard College and The
New School. Prose lives in New York City.
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| Photo:
Tobias Everke |
Brigid Hughes,
moderator
Brigid Hughes is the
founding editor of A Public Space, a journal
of literature and culture based in Brooklyn.
She worked at The Paris Review for many years,
succeeding George Plimpton as editor in 2003;
she left the magazine in 2005. The debut issue
of A Public Space was published in March 2006.
Books discussed
during the event include:
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| Reading Like
A Writer |
Blue Angel |
Caravaggio |
A Changed Man |
The Lives of
the Muses |
Eat, Drink & Be Literary
is sponsored by Bloomberg.
