2012 Archive
"Chinese, English, Spanish: Writing a Third Literature of the Americas - A Trilingual Program"
12/14/2012 — 5:30 p.m.
AAARI
Free
Queens College Evening Readings: Aleksandar Hemon, Norman Manea & Gary Shteyngart (with Leonard Lopate)
12/11/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20; free with CUNY student ID
"Translation Matters," lecture by Edith Grossman
12/11/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free
Carla Hall in the @Macaulay Author Series
12/10/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Macaulay Honors College
Free
Luis Francia: A Filipino Writer in the World
12/7/2012 — 6 p.m.
AAARI
Free; RSVP online
Contemporary Jewish-American Writing: What Has Changed? Mikhal Dekel, Nancy K. Miller, Edith Pearlman, Judith Shulevitz
12/6/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Louis Lapham
12/5/2012 — 5:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Queens College MFA Open House <pdf>
12/5/2012 — 5:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series: Aleksandar Hemon
12/4/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series: Margaux Fragoso
11/27/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Joyce Carol Oates (Gerta Vanderbilt Whitney Connor Guest Writer)
11/27/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Queens College Evening Readings: Jonathan Safran Foer & Joyce Carol Oates (with Leonard Lopate)
11/20/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20; free with CUNY student ID
Transculturation Seminar: Chris Andrews (with Natasha Wimmer)
11/20/2012 — 12:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
The New Salon in Queens: Readings and Conversations with Poet Marie Ponsot (co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America)
11/14/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free
The Real and the Imagined: Talk and Reading with Etgar Keret
11/14/2012 — 3:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series: Patrick McGrath
11/13/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
R.L. Stine in the @Macaulay Author Series
11/13/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Macaulay Honors College
Free
Queens College Evening Readings: Teju Cole & James Wood (with Leonard Lopate)
11/13/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20; free with CUNY student ID
A Reading and Discussion with Poet Charles Bernstein
11/7/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free
Intergenre Reading Series: Alice Mattison and Lisa D'Amour
11/7/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Free
Gay Talese (The Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas Lecture)
11/5/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Brooklyn on My Mind: Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Ben Lerner, and "The Novel about Art" (with Leonard Lopate)
10/31/2012 — 5:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Free
Queens College Evening Readings: Edward Albee (with Leonard Lopate)
10/30/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20; free with CUNY student ID
Burning City: Poets of Metropolitan Modernity: Jed Rasula and Josh Schneiderman
10/25/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series: David Ferry
10/23/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
A Reading & Conversation with Katherine Vaz, Fall 2012 Harman Writer-in-Residence
10/23/2012 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Free
Sidney Offit: The Life & Work of Kurt Vonnegut
10/22/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
An Evening of Confessional Poetry: Trisha Low and Vanessa Place
10/19/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Meet the Agents: Julie Barer, PJ Mark, Irene Skonick, and Dorian Karchmar
10/17/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Intergenre Reading Series: Anselm Berrigan and Julie Otsuka
10/17/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Free
David Matlin: A HalfMan Dreaming (with Ammiel Alcalay)
10/17/2012 — 4:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
A Reading by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Mark Strand
10/16/2012 — 6:45 p.m.
City College
Free
Literary Legacy: Two Writers in Conversation on Craft and Process (Cathy Park Hong and David Henry Hwang; co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America)
10/12/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free
Warhol's Orbit: Three Writers, Thirty Years: Wayne Koestenbaum, John Yau, Megan Volpert
10/11/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
"Writing Across Genres and Oceans: The Evolution of Fiction and Nonfiction Writing for English and Spanish-speaking Audiences"
10/11/2012 — 12:30 p.m.
Lehman College
Free
Extraordinary Lives: Francine du Plessix Gray (with Bill Kelly)
10/10/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
$15 general / $12 members
Translit, or The Historical Novel Now (Ashley Dawson, Hari Kunzru, Peter Mendelsund)
10/10/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Joyce Carol Oates (Gerta Vanderbilt Whitney Connor Guest Writer)
10/9/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Fiction Reading: Maaza Mengiste
10/9/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free
Susanna Moore in the @Macaulay Author Series, introduced by Daphne Merkin
10/4/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Macaulay Honors College
Free
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series: Margaret Atwood
10/4/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Writing Feminism: From Redstockings to Occupy (Jennifer Baumgarden and Alix Kates Shulman)
10/1/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free (RSVP)
"Hold These Truths: The Gordon Hirabayahsi Case"
9/28/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
AAARI
Free
Mingmei Yip (reading from Skeleton Women: A Novel)
9/21/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
AAARI
Free
Jonathan Galassi (reading from Left-handed: Poems)
9/20/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
Calandra Institute
Free (RSVP)
Written on a Summer Evening: Poetry
7/2/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
Free
Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates
6/6/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
John Jay College
$15 (free with CUNY ID; RSVP necessary)
Best-Selling Author Series: Stuart Woods
5/21/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
40th Annual CCNY Poetry Festival
5/11/2012 — all day event
City College
Distinguished Writer Series: Robert Pinsky and the Ben Allison Jazz Trio
5/9/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Poets in the Playhouse: Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah
5/4/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free
Chungmi Kim Reading
5/4/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
The University
Free
Schwerner Writers' Series: Francisco Goldman and Rachel Eliza Griffiths
5/2/2012 — 3:30 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free
Schwerner Writers' Series: Amber Dermont and Tonya Foster
4/26/2012 — 2:30 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free
Best-Selling Author Series: Susan Isaacs
4/24/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
E.L. Doctorow (with Leonard Lopate)
4/24/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)
Distinguished Writer Series: Faculty Reading with Peter Carey, Tom Sleigh, Nathan Englander and Kathryn Harrison
4/23/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
South African Poet Laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile: Reading and Conversation (with Meena Alexander)
4/20/2012 — 4:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Distinguished Writer Series: Michael Ondaatje
4/18/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Turnstyle Reading Series: Jan Heller Levi, Linsey Abrams, and Others
4/16/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman
4/12/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
$10 general / $8 members
Tendencies: Poetics & Practice - D'Lo, Sarah Schulman, and TC Tolbert
4/5/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
31st Annual Literary Arts Festival with Junot Diaz
4/5/2012 — 5:30 p.m.
New York City College of Technology
Free
Distinguished Writer Series: Tea Obreht
4/4/2012 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
The Eleventh National Black Writers Conference (NBWC)
3/29 - 4/1/2012
Medgar Evers College
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Billy Collins and Friends
3/29/2012 — 12:30 p.m.
Lehman College
Free
Varieties of Biography (4th Annual Leon Levy Conference)
3/29/2012 — all day event
Graduate Center
Free
2012 Chapbook Festival
3/28 - 3/29/2012
Various Locations, including the Graduate Center
Free (RSVP required for all workshops)
Interwoven Worlds: A Symposium on Writing and Translation Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East
3/28/2012
Graduate Center
Free
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (with Leonard Lopate)
3/27/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)
Best-Selling Author Series: Alan Furst
3/27/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Turnstyle Reading Series: Nicole Cooley, Meera Nair, and Others
3/27/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Criticism and Self-Influence: A Talk by Harold Bloom (Part 2)
3/26/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free (RSVP)
Reclaiming Histories of Women's Holocaust Writing
3/21/2012 — 6:15 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Lehman Lecture with Esmeralda Santiago
3/21/2012 — 11:00 a.m.
Lehman College
Reading and Conversation with Laurie Scheck
3/20/2012 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Free
Criticism and Self-Influence: A Talk by Harold Bloom (Part 1)
3/19/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free (RSVP)
City College MFA in Creative Writing Spring Open House
3/19/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
City College (event to be held at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe)
Free (RSVP)
Poetry After Genocide: Damir Arsenijevic (with Ammiel Alcalay and Colette Dauite)
3/19/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Turnstyle Reading Series: Kimiko Hahn, Patrick McGrath, and Others
3/15/2012 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Acclaimed Poet David Mills
3/15/2012 — 12:30 p.m.
Lehman College
To Love What Is: Alix Kates Shulman (with Jason Tougaw)
3/13/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Tendencies: Poetics & Practice - Jonathan Goldberg, Byron Kim, and Michael Moon
3/12/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Abductions and The Flood: Poetry by Chiwan Choi
3/9/2012 — 6:00 p.m.
CUNY Asian American Research Institute
Free
Helen Eisenbach on "Lesbianism Made Easy"
3/8/2012 — 12:30 p.m.
City College
Free
Michael Chorust
3/8/2012 — 12:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Ebony Today: A Conversation with Ebony Editor-in-Chief Amy Dubois Barnett
3/8/2012 — 10:30 a.m.
Lehman College
Colum McCann (with Leonard Lopate)
3/6/2012 — 7:00 p.m.Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)
Carlos Andres Gomez
3/1/2012 — 2:00 p.m.College of Staten Island
Free
Turnstyle Reading Series: Ben Lerner, Michelle Valladares, and Others
2/29/2012 — 6:30 p.m.Graduate Center
Free
Best-Selling Author Series: Alice McDermott
2/28/2012 — 7:00 p.m.Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Distinguished Writer Series: Sharon Olds
2/22/2012 — 7:30 p.m.Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Terry Baker Mulligan Reading and Book Signing
2/17/2012 — 12:00 p.m.City College
Free
Knopf Doubleday Author Series: Richard Mason
2/16/2012 — 7:00 p.m.Macaulay Honors College
Free (RSVP)
Soviet-Jewish Experience in NYC, 1972-2000 in Fact and Fiction
2/16/2012 — 6:30 p.m.Graduate Center
$10 general / $8 members
Distinguished Writer Series: Hugo Hamilton
2/15/2012 — 7:30 p.m.Hunter College
Free (RSVP)
Tendencies: Poetics & Practice - Kate Bornstein, Kaplan Page Harris, and Camille Roy
2/15/2012 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Archipelagos and Words: A Tribute to Edouard Glissant (with Mary Ann Caws and Olivier Glissant)
2/8/2012 — 6:00 p.m.Graduate Center
Free
The Art of Long-Form Journalism: Top New York City Magazine Writers Discuss their Craft
2/7/2012 — 7:00 p.m.Graduate Center
Free (RSVP)
SAFE Shimmy SLAM: An Eruption of Prose, Poetry & Performance
2/3/2012 — 6:00 p.m.Graduate Center
Free
Call for Papers Deadline: The Eleventh National Black Writers Conference (NBWC)
1/15/2012Medgar Evers College
Best-Selling Author Series: Stacy Schiff
1/12/2012 — 7:00 p.m.Hunter College
Free (RSVP)