Monday, May 2, 2011

Brooklyn on My Mind: Writing Fiction and Nonfiction

Leonard Lopate of WNYC Radio's The Leonard Lopate Show will talk with Jennifer Egan (Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, A Visit from the Goon Squad, the NY Times Magazine cover story on Lori Berenson), Darin Strauss (Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, Half a Life), and Phillip Lopate (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays, Two Marriages) about writing both fiction and nonfiction. Egan won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad; Strauss won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography for Autobiography with Half a Life.
Date:
May 4, 2011
Time:
5:00 PM
College:
Brooklyn College
Address:
2900 Bedford Avenue & Avenue H
Brooklyn
Building:
Brooklyn College Library
Room:
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Phone:
718.951.5847
Website:
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/wolfe/
Admission:
Free