With the co-founders of the audiobook project, Harry Schwartz, a practitioner, teacher and advocate in urban planning and Lynne Sharon Schwartz, a distinguished novelist, essayist and translator.
This lecture with audio clips features original recordings of major American authors reading from their works. The authors and books include James Baldwin, Another Country; William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness; James Jones, From Here to Eternity; John Updike, "Lifeguard," from Pigeon Feathers; Bernard Malamud, "The Mourners," from The Magic Barrel; Nelson Algren, The Man With the Golden Arm; and Philip Roth, Letting Go.
Three to four minute excerpts from readings by the seven authors, each preceded by a brief introduction about the author and the book, are highlighted.
New York City, NY; NYC