EVENT DETAILS
In conjunction with the release of her new memoir, The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates—known for her raw and poignant writing which often explores themes of class tensions, adolescence, violence, and unapologetic portraits of human nature—reflects upon her prolific career and her coming-of-age as a writer in rural western New York State.
Joyce Carol Oates, the award-winning author of numerous books, including her memoir The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age, is Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. Adam Kirsch (moderator) is a poet and critic whose work appears in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. His most recent book is Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas.
Co-sponsored by PEN American Center
LOCATION
The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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