1. Learn more about the past, present and current state of Nathan Englander’s new play The 27th Man at next Thursday’s event with the author/playwright, director Barry Edelstein and journalist Alexis Soloski. (Event may include discussions of aforementioned Russian prison) nathanenglander: The current state of our set. Eventually this will be a Russian prison. #27thMan (Taken with Instagram)

    Learn more about the past, present and current state of Nathan Englander’s new play The 27th Man at next Thursday’s event with the author/playwright, director Barry Edelstein and journalist Alexis Soloski.

    (Event may include discussions of aforementioned Russian prison)

    nathanenglander:

    The current state of our set. Eventually this will be a Russian prison. #27thMan (Taken with Instagram)

  2. Literary Magic at the New York Public Library: The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers →

    Wild River Review provides a fabulous look behind the scenes of NYPL’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and the Center’s inimitable Director Jean Strouse. Inspiring? Incredibly so!

  3. We’re so excited! And we just can’t hide it! (nor should we) The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is accepting applications for the 2013-2014 class of Fellows. What this means is… You might have the golden opportunity to work at the Library! Walking through gorgeous marble hallways to your own beautiful office, where you research the Library’s collections and write your book/screenplay/graphic novel/etc.  

    Check out the submission guidelines to learn more about the program and requirements. GOOD LUCK!

  4. Eventually, Nell Freudenberger will have written so many wonderful books that we’ll stop gossiping about how success fell into the young woman’s lap at age 26.

    — 

    Ron Charles, Washington Post
    in his review of Nell Freudenberger’s new book, The Newlyweds 

    Want to learn how success “fell into the young woman’s lap at age 26”? Join us May 8, for what is sure to be a FASCINATING discussion with the author and journalist, poet Eliza Griswold. 

  5. The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2012-2013 Fellows →

    We can’t wait to welcome them all this Fall! Congratulations to the class of ‘13.

    (in alphabetical order)

    Elizabeth Blackmar,
    Shimon Dotan,
    Ruth Franklin,
    Anthony Gottlieb,
    Philip Gourevitch,
    Greg Grandin,
    Valentina Izmirlieva,
    Dániel Margócsy,
    C.E. Morgan,
    Mae Ngai,
    Gary Panter,
    James Ryerson,
    Luc Sante,
    Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,
     and John Wray

  6. Our most heartfelt congratulations goes to Maya Jasanoff, Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers alumnus, and the recipient of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Non-Fiction for her book Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. Maya visited NYPL last Spring to share her thoughts on American Loyalists with New Yorker writer Jill Lepore. You can listen to their conversation here!

    Our most heartfelt congratulations goes to Maya Jasanoff, Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers alumnus, and the recipient of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Non-Fiction for her book Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.

    Maya visited NYPL last Spring to share her thoughts on American Loyalists with New Yorker writer Jill Lepore. You can listen to their conversation here!

  7. He takes pains with historical accuracy, writes beautifully constructed sentences…never settles for the carelessly selected phrase but almost unerringly gets the correct word for the situation…

    — 

    Annie Proulx, Financial Times review of Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Men. 

    RSVP for next Wednesday’s event, where Hari Kunzru will discuss his latest book with National Book Critics Circle Award nominee Teju Cole!

  8. Thanks for a great evening!

    nathanenglander:

    Photos from Wednesday’s New York Public Library event from the wonderful people at Knopf. 

    You can see all of Sarah Jones’s friends in these, the better to remember them and a great night at the NYPL. 

  9. What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth. It’s not pulling the strings on a marionette, it’s not playing ventriloquist, and it’s not mimicry. It’s about inhabiting a character, and, at the same time, being totally unaware of what you’ve become.

    — 

    - Nathan Englander (New Yorker, Dec. 2011)

    Tomorrow Sarah Jones will meet with Nathan Englander and discuss the launch of his new book “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.”

    The room is booked solid (are you suprised??), but if seats do become available, we will offer them on a first come, first-served basis.

  10. NYPL Offers FREE Seminars for NYC Teachers →

    The Cullman Center Institute for Teachers is a dedicated program that offers opportunities for teachers to gain professional development and enrich their understanding of history and literature by attending seminars taught by the accomplished writers and scholars of NYPL’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Courses offered this Spring include: writing workshops for Fiction, Non-Fiction or Romance, seminars about the history of New York, the Middle Ages, or African-American culture, or an in-depth look at The Great Gatsby and more. It’s a diverse group of classes, sure to inspire - but hurry, the deadline is January 9th! To apply click here.