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Lipman Lecture with Nathan Englander
March 2, 2017, 7:00 PM
Free
Award-winning short-story writer and novelist Nathan Englander is this year’s Lipman lecturer. The title of his talk is “Writing in Uncertain Times.” Englander, the distinguished writer-in-residence at New York University, is the author of the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, as well as the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases (all published by Knopf/Vintage). He was the 2012 recipient of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for What We Talk About. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and the Washington Post, as well as The O. Henry Prize Stories and numerous editions of The Best American Short Stories.
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program.