The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers was perfect for this PEN event celebrating the arrival of many writers from all over the world for the Festival. We came in through an evening fog, looked out big windows at the fading day and watched the lights come on across the water. On stage, the writers stood in front of a blue velvet curtain and a montage of the week ahead began.
The iphone game of BANNED and CENSORED was probably fun for all the young people texting around me. A great idea was the list of books presented by different writers, which will add up to 30 by the end of the week.
Suddenly bird-like violin music erupted around us. Iva Bittová's amazing sound competed with thunder...
Sono stati sufficienti pochi secondi di ascolto, Domenica pomeriggio al Museum of Jewish Heritage, per capire di che pasta è fatto David Grossman.Subito il dolce ma fermo rifiuto di parlare del figlio morto in guerra, incautamente evocato dall’intervistatore.E’ il segno della difesa di un...
It’s hot. Very hot. Too hot to be walking the thirty or so blocks to SONY BMG where I have a meeting, and then the twenty or so blocks back and on another avenue where I am to meet a friend. It is the ultimate New York City summer day and I feel like I am about to pass out either from a general headiness from the many good things at present (professional, personal), the fact that I am fully in love and landed on that square without even trying or wanting, that I am giddy already and with reason, or perhaps it is just the oh-so-humid day, the sun beating down (beating down), and that no matter...
I must put forth dual images of myself and neither is correct. There is the perceived strong she-can-handle-anything me (not true) and the she’s-so-fragile me (not true) but never is there the strong yet vulnerable me that even Bob Dylan had met, not knowing me, but someone like me, who was a woman in every respect yet when she breaks, she breaks just like a little girl. I don’t know if there is any other way to break, quite frankly. Do you break like an adult and fake it and pretend everything is fine? Is there some organized way” of having a minor breakdown of which I missed the mass mailing and details because if there is,...
