Past Art of Writing
Visionary computer scientist and author Jaron Lanier is known for his critical perspective on the digital world. He discusses the impact of A.I. on writing and the intellectual skills that inform it.
Sonali Deraniyagala lost her entire family, including two sons, in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She discusses Wave, her bestselling memoir on the experience, which won the PEN Ackerley Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Doreen St. Félix is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the magazine’s TV critic. She talks with author and New Yorker critic Hilton Als.
Katrina Dodson, winner of the 2016 PEN Translation Prize, reflects on why there is no such thing as a perfect translation, and why the work of translating requires inhabiting other worlds.
Craft: How Writers, Musicians, Athletes, and Others Cultivate Their Talent
Writer, journalist, and scholar Carlo Rotella is joined in conversation by UC Berkeley professor of English Scott Saul.
Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, Moneyball, and other bestselling books, discusses his career and practice as a writer.
Patricia Williams in Conversation with Ramona Naddaff
Patricia Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University. A scholar of race, gender, and law, she is a prolific writer across a variety of genres. Her books include The Alchemy of Race and Rights and Open House: Of Family, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own. She is a columnist for the Nation.
Cultural critic Greil Marcus and publisher Steve Wasserman discuss their nearly half-century of collaboration.
Award-winning Brazilian novelist and poet Adriana Lisboa speaks in conversation with Professor Candace Slater (Spanish & Portuguese) about the work of writing and translation.