Keynote Reading and Reception
5:00-6:30 P.M., HQ L02/L90
Poet as novelist, novelist as poet
Writers Raven Leilani and Ocean Vuong read from their work and discuss writing across genre, with Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review. Introduced by Maggie Millner, TYR senior editor.
Reception to Follow
Generative Workshop: Poetry
3:30-4:30 P.M., Location TBA
Mapping memory
Write with Ocean Vuong. A workshop focusing on the often protracted space of a poem, emphasizing process over product.
Open to members of the Yale community, with preference given to Yale students.
RSVP required.
Artists at Work
12:00–1:00 P.M., HQ 134
How do artists collaborate?
Husband-and-wife duo Matt Berninger, lead singer of The National, and poet and editor Carin Besser, formerly of The New Yorker, discuss their long-standing musical collaboration, and the challenges and delights of co-creation. Introduced by Meghan O’Rourke and moderated by award-winning playwright and Yale professor Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Keynote Panel
5:00-6:30 P.M., HQ L02
What is a magazine editor for?
A roundtable discussion on the art of editing with Emily Greenhouse (The New York Review of Books), Radhika Jones (Vanity Fair), Deborah Treisman (The New Yorker), and Meghan O’Rourke (The Yale Review, formerly The New Yorker, Slate, and The Paris Review). Introduced by TYR senior editor Sam Huber. Conversation moderated by TYR senior editor James Surowiecki.
Co-sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center.
A Closer Look
3:30-4:30 P.M., HQ 276
Diving into The Situationist International papers at Yale
Lucy Sante speaks about the papers of the avant-garde collective, which are held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Introduced by TYR senior editor Dan Fox.
Writers at Work
12:00-1:00 P.M., HQ L02
What is art criticism?
Enjoy lunch with Lucy Sante, critic and memoirist, as she engages in conversation with TYR senior editor Dan Fox on the pleasures and challenges of writing about art.
Introduced by Joanna Fiduccia, assistant professor of history of art.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of “Street Talk”: Pamphlet Literature of the Nigerian Marketplace on view in the Hanke Gallery of Sterling Memorial Library.
Onitsha Market Literature—named after a city east of the Niger River—emerged in the early 1950s. The popular pamphlet style soon spread to other centers throughout the then British colony of Nigeria. These ephemeral publications circulated widely throughout the busy marketplace, and writers intended them to be both educating and entertaining for the common people.
Samuel Johnson defined “spectacle” in 1755 as “a show; a gazing stock; anything exhibited to the view as eminently remarkable.” This exhibition will explore the range of spectacular shows that were offered to the fee-paying public in Georgian London, from exhibitions of paintings, to scientific demonstrations, to the display of wondrous animals.
Keynote Reading and Reception
5:00–6:30 P.M., HQ L02/L90
Fiction’s mysteries
Novelists Jonathan Lethem and Catherine Lacey read from their work and discuss the role of fiction in an age of information—and misinformation—with Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
Reception to Follow
Generative Workshop: Fiction
3:30-4:30 P.M., HQ 134
Writing with the body
Where does a voice begin? Come prepared to write—and move—with novelist Catherine Lacey. Open to members of the Yale community, with preference given to Yale students.
RSVP required.
