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What We Write About When We Write About Love

81X40+MvjzL._SL1500_A Valentine from Four Distinguished Writers Talking About Our Favorite Emotion.

In a way, love is a writer’s only subject, though it usually is disguised by, or filtered through, such matters as war, rebellion, heroism, zeal, ambition, madness, avarice, grief, wonder, innocence, shame and so forth. Under every  subject a writer deals with lies love of someone or of something. Even when no motive for writing shows—and in the best works or art it ought not to—still, most writers are out to make the world worth loving. Don’t you think? This is the sort of question Erica Jong, Alice McDermott, Paul Muldoon and Roger Rosenblatt will toss to one another, with Valentine’s Day around the corner, in a free-wheeling discussion among celebrated writers whose fiction, essays and poems have made them beloved themselves. Romantic love, parental love, love of friends, of nature, of love itself—every angle and permutation examined, embraced and knocked about. What’s not to love. Oh, did we fail to mention sex?

There will be a bookselling and signing of Roger Rosenblatt’s new book, The Book of Love, following the event.











When: Tue., Feb. 10, 2015 at 8:15 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $30
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81X40+MvjzL._SL1500_A Valentine from Four Distinguished Writers Talking About Our Favorite Emotion.

In a way, love is a writer’s only subject, though it usually is disguised by, or filtered through, such matters as war, rebellion, heroism, zeal, ambition, madness, avarice, grief, wonder, innocence, shame and so forth. Under every  subject a writer deals with lies love of someone or of something. Even when no motive for writing shows—and in the best works or art it ought not to—still, most writers are out to make the world worth loving. Don’t you think? This is the sort of question Erica Jong, Alice McDermott, Paul Muldoon and Roger Rosenblatt will toss to one another, with Valentine’s Day around the corner, in a free-wheeling discussion among celebrated writers whose fiction, essays and poems have made them beloved themselves. Romantic love, parental love, love of friends, of nature, of love itself—every angle and permutation examined, embraced and knocked about. What’s not to love. Oh, did we fail to mention sex?

There will be a bookselling and signing of Roger Rosenblatt’s new book, The Book of Love, following the event.

Buy tickets/get more info now