When: Thursday, May 1
Where: William and Anita Newman Library, Baruch College: 55 Lexington Ave., Room 5–150
What time: 2:30–4 p.m.

With Fatou Diome, Flora Drew, Ma Jian, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and Charles Simic; moderated by Esther Allen

Free and open to the public. No reservations.

Cosponsored by The Great Works Program, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY

How does literature stay alive? How does writing from the past persist in the writing of the present? Each of the participants in this event has selected a classic work from those being studied in Baruch’s Great Works program and will discuss its resonance within his or her own life and work.