Kirsty Gunn, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Phillip Lopate Discuss Essay Writing

When: Wednesday, November 17, 2016, from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Where: Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31st Street, Queens, NY

What: Kirsty Gunn, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Phillip Lopate Discuss Essay Writing

Event Description: Join NYRB and Astoria Bookshop in a discussion of essay writing and celebration of the US release of Kirsty Gunn’s essay My Katherine Mansfield Project (Notting Hill Editions). Originally from her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, Gunn’s book is an exploration of home, identity, and belonging. Kirsty Gunn is also the recipient of awards and prizes such as the Scottish Arts Council Bursary for Literature and The New York Times Notable Book Award; Infidelities (2014), her short story collection, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and Frank O’Connor Award. American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn’s recent work include Waiting for the Barbarians (2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a runner-up for the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2013). Phillip Lopate is an American film critic, essayist, poet, fiction writer, and the director of the nonfiction graduate program at Columbia University; his most recent work include To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (2013).

Free! For more information, please visit the NYRB events page or the Astoria Bookshop events page.