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May 19:
PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
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The PEN Awards will be presented in New York on the evening of Monday, May 19, at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
Members of the press are welcome to attend.
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| Conversation: Michael Cunningham & Janna Levin |
December 20, 2007 | New York City
With: Michael Cunningham and Janna Levin
Michael Cunningham is the author of A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, and The Hours,
for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the
PEN/Faulkner Award. Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy
at Barnard College of Columbia University and the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, for which she won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for debut fiction.
Discussed:
the hormonal castration of an English war hero; cocktail neurosis; the
deleted character from The Hours; the correlation between levels of
social awkwardness and contributions to humanity; dumping a book after
writing 100 pages; The Road; irritating questions; the limitations of 1st person narratives; being an optimist; Michiko Kakutani’s funeral.
Also included: readings from The Hours and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
 LISTEN
• Entire conversation (1:02:48)
• Michael Cunningham reading from The Hours (3:18)
• Janna Levin reading from A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (4:20)
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