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MEMBER BLOG TAG: annabel davis-goff

Saturday, May 1, 2010 11:30AM
 
A Conversation In Excelsis
Tags: Shirley Hazzard, Richard Ford, Annabel Davis-Goff, writing, editing, William Maxwell, The New Yorker, novels, poetry, Bernard Schwartz, Unterberg Poetry Center
 
 

At the 92nd Street YM-YWHA on Friday, the novelist and essayist Shirley Hazzard engaged the novelist Richard Ford in a conversation about reading and writing that was so warm, and literate, and amusing, and inspiring that it provoked something I don’t often encounter at literary events: a standing ovation. At her entrance, Ms Hazzard supported herself with a cane, but as she limped nobly to her chair, she brought us into her fold. “Excuse me,” she said, turning our way before she was even seated. “I’ve got a game leg.” That is, she was bonding with her audience at 60 m.p.h., even before Mr. Ford—who walked out with the assured gait of Clint Eastwood—could get a word in edgewise. Now, Mr. Ford is...

 
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