LIBRARY NOTES
Adam Kirsch
Literary Magazine Salon
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Members' Room; $10 per person
Celebrate the literary magazine at our third annual Salon, featuring food and wine, conversation, visual presentations, and readings. Editors of
Triple Canopy and
The Paris Review will discuss thoughts on literature old and new, on the page and on the Web.
Triple Canopy will present its first literary - or not literary - issue, Counterfactuals. Editors will read and play audio and video selections from the issue, then discuss the magazine's effort to cultivate new forms of literary work online and undermine generic conventions. They will also speak about Triple Canopy's first book, Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, which explores how works produced for the screen might fully inhabit the page.
The Paris Review will present its Winter 2011 issue, featuring interviews with Jeffrey Eugenides and Alan Hollinghurst and fiction by Roberto Bolaño and Clarice Lispector. In conversation with Senior Editor Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn, Paris Review Daily contributor Avi Steinberg will share the colorful and peculiar history of the airline safety card, with accompanying slides!
A casual conversation with the audience about how literature evolves - or fails to evolve; or should resist evolving -along with shifts in the way we read and write, and the machines we use to do so, will follow.
Adam Kirsch is a senior editor at the New Republic and a columnist for Tablet Magazine. He is the author of several books of poetry, criticism, and biography, most recently
Why Trilling Matters (Yale University Press).
THE WRITING LIFE EVENTS IN 2012 ARE GENEROUSLY UNDERWRITTEN BY JENNY LAWRENCE.
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