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May 3 | A Tribute to Robert Walser
May 3 | A Tribute to Robert Walser

When: Saturday, May 3
Where: Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum: 225 Madison Ave.
What time: 4–5:30 p.m.

With Susan Bernofsky, Deborah Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eugenides, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Michael Krüger

Tickets: $15/$10 PEN & Morgan Library & Museum members

Purchase tickets from Smarttix: www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444


Cosponsored by New Directions, The New York Review of Books, and The Morgan Library & Museum

Through readings and discussion, poets and writers pay tribute to the strange genius of Robert Walser (1878–1956), the Swiss novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet, whose works include Jakob von Gunten, The Assistant, and Selected Stories. Pulitzer Prize–winning Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides), Deborah Eisenberg (Twilight of the Superheroes), Michael Krüger (The Executor), and poet and novelist Wayne Koestenbaum (Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films and The Milk of Inquiry) will be joined by translator Susan Bernofsky.

 



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