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The 92nd Street Y, New York
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The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez on his selection: My choice is one of my favorite passages in Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, the book that we Spanish speakers think…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Dunya Mikhail
Dunya Mikhail on her selection: My translation of this poem by Louise Glück is part of my continuous work to translate contemporary American poetry into…
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Read By: Tina Chang
Tina Chang on her selection: I chose to read "Things I Didn't Know I Loved," by Nâzım Hikmet and translated from the Turkish by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk…
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Read By: Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley on her selection: Deidre Madden is an Irish novelist whose books I love. Her writing has a beautiful lucidity and simplicity of style, free of all…
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Read By: Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li on her selection: Some writers are good to be read in one mood but not another, some are good during one specific period but not another. The writers…
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Read By: Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles on their selection: I picked this book off a shelf in a small place I was staying in Provincetown this summer. I'd never read Victor Hugo and…
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Read By: Lila Azam Zanganeh
Lila Azam Zanganeh on her selection: Césaire speaks to me, a French-born Iranian, as the poet of migration and metissage, but also as the poet of longing for a…
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Read By: Isabella Hammad
Isabella Hammad on her selection: Prisoner of Love is Jean Genet’s strange, recursive, resistant chronicle of the time he spent in the early 1970s with the…
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Read By: Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman on his selection: My reading is from Vladimir Nabokov's novel, Pnin. Timofey Pnin, Russian emigre professor at Wainsdell College somewhere in…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkQueer Eye 5: Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness
Entertainment Weekly’s Gerrad Hall discusses the Netflix series Queer Eye with Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness…
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Read By: Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout on her selection: William Trevor is brilliant at capturing the nuances of many people's perspectives, all in one story, as he does in this…
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Read By: Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer on his selection: I've chosen two passages, both about place. The first is from the start of D. H. Lawrence’s essay, "Taos," published in 1923…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan on her selection: The House of Mirth was the first literary classic that I picked up entirely on my own, without prodding from a teacher or a…
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Read By: Anne Carson
Anne Carson on her selection: Edwin Denby is a pleasure and an education to read. He lived from 1903 to 1983 and wrote dance criticism, more general cultural…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkProtesting for Change: Wes Moore in Conversation with Willie Geist
When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an “illegal knife” in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated…
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Read By: Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison on her selection: More than anything, I love Brian Doyle for his awe. It's not a blinding or a blunting awe, the kind of awe that scours away…
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Read By: The 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest Winners
Asa Drake: I read two poems by Ai, "Cuba, 1962" and "Guadalajara Cemetery." I found her book Vice when I started working for the public library. I don't know…
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Read By: Douglas Kearney
From Douglas Kearney's "Playing the Changing Same:" There’s a saying that goes, “the more things change the more they stay the same.” It’s worn, maybe, but not…
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Read By: Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips on his selection: It’s over thirty years since I first came upon the work of C.P. Cavafy. A friend of mine, a Polish poet, had recommended…
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Read By: Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen on her selection: I chose this story because it deals with anxieties both rational and irrational. I love the way the narrator of this story…
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Read By: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine on her selection: This untitled poem, by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, was written in November of 1937. He was living in Paris, having…
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Read By: David Mitchell
David Mitchell on his selection: I hope you’re well, whoever you are, wherever you are. If my readings were songs on a playlist, I’d call it "A Winter, Some…
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Read By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea on his selection: Annie Dillard’s books came to me in one of those writerly seasons of transition. I could dip into any of her first volumes…
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Read By: Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell on his selection: This essay is a marvel. From the tiniest, the most banal drama—a writer is distracted from her book by the fluttering of a…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkLittle America: Executive Producers and creative team with moderator Lola Ogunnaike
With a 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, Little America is shaping up to be a major hit for Apple TV+. Inspired by true stories of immigrants in America…
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Read By: Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay on her selection: There is this thing that happens, all too often, when a black woman is being introduced in a professional setting. Her…
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Read By: Adam Gopnik
“'How are we to live in an atomic age?' I am tempted to reply: 'Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost…
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Read By: Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer on her selection: I chose this story because it’s such an intuitive and ruefully funny close-up of a marriage. My mother, Hilma Wolitzer, looks at…
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Read By: Margaret Atwood
"Once upon a time, you say, there were germs with horns. They lived in the toilet and could only be defeated by gallons and gallons of bleach. You could commit…
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Read By: Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich on her selection: "Praise crazy. Praise sad. / Praise the path on which we're led." - Joy Harjo, from “Praise the Rain” The torrential love…
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Read By: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on their selections: Chekhov’s story “The Beggar” was written in 1887, when Chekhov was 27. This was the moment in his…
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Read By: Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar on his selection: In 2016, when I finished writing my book THE RETURN, which chronicles my return to Libya after 33 years of not being able to go…
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Read By: Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon on his selection: Reading Ray Bradbury’s “The Rocket Man” for the first time—around the age of ten or eleven—was the first time I realized that…
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Read By: Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss on her selection: I recently finished a collection of short stories, and while writing it I sometimes turned to Leonard Michaels to remember…
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Read By: Robert Hass and Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham on Linda Gregg: Reading Linda Gregg’s poems is a unique experience because not only does one hear Linda’s voice in one’s head—if one ever heard…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes on his selection: I'm reading two poems by Wanda Coleman to celebrate the April publication of her selected poems, WICKED ENCHANTMENT: “Things…
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Read By: Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff on her selection: I've long loved "Sredni Vashtar" for its fury and wildness, and for its profound understanding of the human needs for religious…
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Read By: Billy Collins
Billy Collins on his selection: I chose poems from William Matthews (1942-1997) and Thomas Lux (1946-2017) because I wanted to honor two fallen soldiers who…
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Read By: Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk on her selection: Tennyson’s In Memoriam crops up in the dullest Victorian stretches of an English Literature degree, and so the glimmering…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRobert Frost: "The Road Not Taken"
Robert Frost -- who shares a birthday month with the 92nd Street Y: March 1874 -- made regular appearances at 92Y throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. Often…
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Read By: George Saunders
George Saunders on his selection: There are a few passages in literature that I go back to whenever I’m feeling out of touch with something I know to be true…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart on his selection, Mo Willems's THERE IS A BIRD ON YOUR HEAD: Nothing has ever made me happier than reading Mo Willems to my kid. In these…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkBarry Sonnenfeld with Jerry Seinfeld: Call Your Mother
Legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld joins film and television director Barry Sonnenfeld, to launch his new memoir, Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of…
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Read By: James Shapiro
James Shapiro on his reading: A few years ago, I spent many months researching plague in Shakespeare’s London—how it was misunderstood, the terrible toll it…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkTiny Habits: Small Changes to Transform Your Life with Dr. BJ Fogg and Ramit Sethi
What creates habit change in the real world? At last, you can learn what really works. Stanford behavior scientist BJ Fogg is joined by his former student…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRichie Jackson with Antoni Porowski on Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son
Award-winning producer and writer Richie Jackson and Netflix’s Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski discuss Jackson’s new book, Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkEdie Falco with Michelle Miller on her new CBS show, Tommy, and more
Edie Falco discusses her acclaimed career and her new role as the title character of CBS’s new series, Tommy, with Michelle Miller. Falco is already generating…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkNoah Centineo with Evan Real: To All The Boys
Noah Centineo discusses his breakout role in Netflix's To All The Boys I've Loved Before and its sequel To All the Boys: PS I Still Love You with Evan Real…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkMatti Friedman with Stephanie Butnick: Inside the Mossad
Canadian-Israeli journalist, New York Times Op-Ed contributor and author Matti Friedman joins us to discuss his award-winning book Spies of No Country: Secret…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkEzra Klein with Malcolm Gladwell: Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein, the co-founder of Vox, discusses his groundbreaking new book, Why We’re Polarized, with bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. Their conversation…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkHenry Louis Gates, Jr. with Robert Krulwich: What Kind of Society Do We Want?
Recorded June 13, 1996 at 92nd Street Y.
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkSTARZ's Outlander: Season 5 Conversation with Cast and Author
The stars of Outlander - Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, and Richard Rankin - are joined by author Diana Gabaldon and moderator Julie Kosin from…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkThe Great American Experiment Continues: Diversity and Tolerance in American Life
Writers Stanley Crouch, Bette Bao Lord, former Bronx Borough President and U.S. Congressman Herman Badillo, and moderator Rabbi Marc Schneier consider the…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkJojo Rabbit Writer/Director Taika Waititi and Producer Carthew Neal with Ariel Foxman
Ariel Foxman interviews Academy Award-winning writer and director of Fox Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi, and the film's producer Carthew Neal about…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkMichael Roth with Fareed Zakaria: Free Speech and Political Correctness on Campus
Join Michael S. Roth for a conversation with CNN host and author Fareed Zakaria about the importance of a well-rounded education. President of Wesleyan…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkJonathan Pryce and Fernando Meirelles with Annette Insdorf: The Two Popes
Moderator Annette Insdorf interviews Jonathan Pryce and director Fernando Meirelles about their Netflix film, The Two Popes. Pryce plays Pope Francis –– a…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkZadie Smith with Jennifer Egan: Grand Union
Zadie Smith, beloved author of White Teeth, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, reads from her first book of short fiction, Grand Union, and sits for a conversation…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkThe Bold Type: Cast Conversation with Joanna Coles
Join the stars of Freeform’s The Bold Type - Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee, Meghann Fahy and Melora Hardin - for a candid conversation with the hit show’s real-life…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkSuperstar Chef Jamie Oliver with Carla Hall: Ultimate Veg
Superstar chef and fresh food champion Jamie Oliver brings his signature effervescence and passion for pure, unprocessed, flavor-packed food as he talks with…
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkPlaywright August Wilson Celebrates the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Playwright August Wilson celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., with a Poetry Center appearance on January 21, 1991. He reads poems, selections from…