MEMBER BLOG TAG: andrea levy
| Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:54AM | | | | Written on Water | Tags: Written on Water, Opening Night, Gioconda Belli, Prison Writing Program, writers in peril, freedom, Salman Rushdie, Liao Yiwu, Abdelkader Benali, Hanif Kureishi, Malcolm Gladwell, Andrea Levy, Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg
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The Opening Night Reading "Written on Water" was held in The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, which peered over a very foggy Hudson River last night. The lights from New Jersey seemed brighter than usual.
As water rippled outside against the docks, a giant screen with projected water lapped behind the stage. Water on plasma, noted the Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli.
Belli had perhaps the best interpretation of the "Written on Water" theme that all writers were asked to respond to in their fashion. "My name will be written in lights," Belli read, from a series of poems that discussed the ephemeral nature of each individual life.
| | | | | | | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:06AM | | | | Making My World Voices List | Tags: Martin Solares, Sherman Alexie, Jane Ciabattari, Eric Banks, Rigoberto Gonzales, Mary Ann Newman, Quim Monzo, Claire Messud, Andrea Levy, Norman Rush
| | | PEN World Voices is one of my favorite weeks in the literary year. I'm making a list of events I want to cover, and also preparing to talk about Sherman Alexie at the National Book Critics Circle panel on Friday April 30 at 1 pm at the Austrian Cultural Center. (I'm moderating a conversation about writers at this year's festival, with Rigoberto Gonzalez, who will talk about Mexican novelist Martin Solares; Eric Banks, who will discuss German-language writers, and Mary Ann Newman, who will discuss Catalan author Quim Monzo.)
Monday night's launch at WNYC, with Claire Messud moderating a panel including Lorraine Adams, Andrea Levy, and Norman Rush, bouncing off her Guernica guest edited edition on women, sex and fiction, and looks like a... | | | | | |
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