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The Leonard Lopate Show

Writers Around the World

Friday, December 07, 2007

A new anthology series features literature from around the world – one country at a time. Edward Hirsch edits The Writer’s World; Eavan Boland is editing the volume on Irish writers, and Margaret Sayers Peden is editing the volume on Mexican writers.

Event: Edward Hirsch, Eavan Boland, and Margaret Sayers Peden will be reading
Friday, December 7 at 7 pm
New York University
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South

Weigh in: Tell us if there's a country whose literature you love and that you feel is ignored here in the U.S.


Comments

  • [1] Avril from Mt. Vernon, NY December 07, 2007 - 12:16PM

    Quick questions - Will there be a book on West Indian writers?
  • [2] Linda from Queens December 07, 2007 - 12:31PM

    Pick any country in Africa. Or, how about Peru? Paraguay? Native American writing?
  • [3] Alix from NYC December 07, 2007 - 12:37PM

    Will the book on Hebrew writers include any Yiddish writers? Do you think it should? Or at least discuss the distinction??
  • [4] A. C. FELLNER from Livingston NJ December 07, 2007 - 01:03PM

    Writers are not as much honored in America because the principal artistic genre is film. Film actors and producers run for public office; celebrities become ambassadors to the world. It is not the written word, but the visual which is highly acclaimed and celebrated. We are a visually oriented society, intoxicated by the latest incarnations of computer graphics, and numbed by it, as well. In fact writers in Hollywood are often denigrated and demeaned.


  • [5] Josh Levine December 07, 2007 - 03:19PM

    Vietnam, especially stories that feature everyday life there.

    A favorite source of these:

    http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/index.php?subcat=81
  • [6] Dominick Arbolay from Hell's Kitchen December 08, 2007 - 03:19PM

    There's a whole body of writing in English by

    Philipino writers that's hardly known here.

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