The TWO WORLDS panel moderated by Adam Gopnik, was a mostly a paean to New York, and so took place in a perfect venue. It was a beautiful, if very warm, Sunday afternoon. Battery Park was spring green and filled with sightseers, there were sailboats on the water and the Statue of Liberty through an archway presided over it all. In the cool, elegant Museum of Jewish History, Anne Landsman from South Africa, Eduardo Lago from Spain, José Manuel Prieto from Cuba and Salman Rushdie from India joined together in agreeing that while they were mostly from these places, they had lived in others, and come to be New Yorkers by choice, by accident, or by need. And they had stayed on, why? They...
Arriving late Thursday night at Joe’s Pub (after having gotten mixed up and arrived early on Wednesday night, by mistake!), stumbling in the dark, sitting in the blogger’s-photographer’s-web guy’s corner, I catch my first reader, with his trilby jauntily tipped back, and to the side. His...
