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Tue, Nov 1, 7 PM
MAO:
The Unknown Story
In conversation with
Seth Faison, former
Shanghai bureau chief, New York Times
In a series of startling revelations, Chang
(author of Wild Swans) and Halliday, a renowned Asia scholar,
explode every myth and assumption about Mao.
Co-presented with Asia Society Southern
California
Wed, Nov 2, 7 Pm
FLEDGLING
In conversation with
Akasha Gloria Hull,
poet and feminist scholar
Butler, one of the world’s great
science fiction writers, explores the limits of
“otherness” in her new novel—the story of a
young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and
abilities lead her to a startling conclusion.
Tue, Nov 8, 7 PM
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
In conversation with
John Powers, Critic at
Large for NPR’s Fresh Air
Packer, award-winning staff writer for The
New Yorker, explores the full range of ideas and emotions
stirred up by our most controversial foreign-policy venture
since Vietnam.
Thu, Nov 10, 7 PM
Ordinary Heroes
Set in Bastogne, during the Battle of the
Bulge, Turow’s character explores the agonizing choices
his father faced on the battlefield. A story of courage,
betrayal, passion and the mystery of a father’s hidden
war.
Tue, Nov 15, 7 PM
“Nancy Drew to
Eve Diamond: From
Girl
Sleuth to Postmodern Noir Dame”
Rehak, author of a new book about Nancy
Drew, discusses the beloved girl detective in conversation with
the creator of the gripping Eve Diamond mystery thrillers.
Thu, Nov 17, 7 PM
“Telling the Story of War: Two
Writers Respond”
Croatian-American novelist Novakovich
(Infidelities, Stories of War and Lust) and Paris Review editor/non-fiction author Gourevitch (We Wish to Inform You
That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from
Rwanda) discuss writers’ responses to catastrophe.
Mon, Nov 28, 7 PM
Patty Stonesifer
“All Kids College Ready: What Will it Take to Ensure that Our Public Education System Prepares All Children?”
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thu, nov 17, 7 PM
Josip Novakovich and
Philip Gourevitch
Top: Josip Novakovich
Photo © Jeanette Novakovich
Bottom: Phillip Gourevitch
Photo © Andrew Brucker
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Croatian-born Josip Novakovich moved to the United States at the age of twenty. He has published two story collections ( Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections of narrative essays ( Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl), and was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O.Henry Prize Stories. His textbook, Fiction Writer's Workshop, was a Book of the Month Club selection. HarperCollins will publish his novel April Fool's Day in the fall, and his novel, Poppy Slopes, will be published in Spain (in Spanish). He received the Whiting Writer's Award (1997), Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1991 and 2002), the Ingram Merrill Award, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and he has been a writing fellow of the New York City Public Library. His work has appeared in many journals, including Paris Review, Threepenny Review, The New York Times Magazine, European Magazine, and he contributes regularly to the Zagreb daily Jutarnji list. Mr. Novakovich teaches in the MFA program at Penn State University.
www.josipnovakovich.com
Philip Gourevitch is the editor of The Paris Review and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of A Cold Case (2001), and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
www.theparisreview.org
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