Rachel Wetzsteon
| Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:05AM | | | | Conversation and Change | Posted By: Rachel Wetzsteon
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| | | I see that Molly McQuade has already given us a witty account of some of the highlights of the McEwan/Pinker conversation at the Morgan, so I’ll abandon –- with some relief I confess -- the plodding summary I had in mind and instead list a few of my own favorite moments, in the hopes that they’ll supplement hers (thanks Molly):
PEN World Voices Festival Director Caro Lllewellyn accidentally introduced the two men as “Steven McEwan” and “Ian Pinker,” but this name-mangling turned out to be surprisingly apt, for this was a conversation that really felt like a conversation, a highly spirited rather than a dully scripted back-and-forth in which the two men engaged with, riffed off... | | | | | | | |
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