Eugene Lang College event. Speakers: Jonathan Fanton, Beatrice Banu, James Lipton, George Plimpton. Featured speakers: Mary Alice, Stanley Kunitz, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Norman Mailer, Estelle Parsons, Kennet Koch, Laurie Beechman, Gay Talese, Suzan-Lori Parks, Oscar Hijuelos, Eisa Davis, Shelley Winters, and Kurt Vonnegut.

3-part reading series on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Harlem Writers Guild. Participants: Andrea Broadwater, Grace F. Edwards, Anne Hamilton, Walter Dean Myers, Diane Richards, Cedra Walton.

Speaker: Grace Edwards, Gammy Singer, K.C. Washington.

Sponsored by the New School Creative Writing program and the Village Voice Literary Supplement. Speakers: David Gates, Sapphire.

Anniversary reading. Moderator: Rick Moody. Speakers: Robert Coover, Robert Creeley, Ann Lauterbach.

Part three of a three-part reading series on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Harlem Writers Guild. A celebration of the onine literary magazine Beloved Harlem.

Readings by Marilyn Abildskov, Jody Bolz, Lan Samantha Chang, Megan Foss, Stephanie Gunn, Ellen Hinsey, Marjorie Sandor, Larissa Szporluk.

Guest Authors: Valery Wilson, Wesley Brown, Louise Meriwether, Cornelius Eaddy.

Reading and discussion. Robert Pinksy, translator; Michael Mazur, illustrator.

Inaugural gala reading. Featured authors: Nuar Alsadir, Mary Jo Bang, Alexander Chee, Maxine Chernoff, Douglas Crase, Kathy Fagan, Maria Flook, Sarah Gold, Richard Howard, Noelle Kocot, Alice Mattison, James McManus, Thylias Moss, Martha Rhodes, Maureen Seaton, and Susan Wheeler.