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September 7, 2000
Writing Faculty Join Roger Rosenblatt at 92nd Street YFree Tickets for Students and Faculty
Contact:
Jane Finalborgo
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081Some of the stars of Southampton College's Writing Program will be showcased this spring in a series of four evenings on the art of writing called "Roger Rosenblatt and Friends" at New York's celebrated 92nd Street Y.
The essayist Rosenblatt, Parsons Family University Professor of Writing at Southampton College, will gather some of the country's finest novelists, short story writers, playwrights, poets, and journalists in groups of three or four to talk about why, how and how differently they write about eternal subjects.
These four evenings will be devoted to "Good and Evil" (January 14), "Youth and Age" (February 4), "God and Nature" (March 4) and "Men and Women" (May 6).
Guests include writers on the Southampton College faculty such as Spalding Gray, Jules Feiffer, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and Dava Sobel as well as others such as Wendy Wasserstein, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alice McDermott, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank McCourt, Andrew Delbanco, Martin Marty, and Nora Ephron.
The events will be held from 7:30 - 9 p.m. at the 92nd St. Y at 1395 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
Free tickets will be set aside for students in the Southampton MFA in Writing Program and for undergraduates interested in writing. In addition, free tickets will be available to Southampton faculty and administrators and to instructors in writing and literature at the C.W. Post and Brooklyn campuses.
The evenings are likely to be sold out, so those interested in attending what promises to be a fascinating series of conversations on the art of writing should contact Mary Bruno in the Humanities Office at Southampton College of Long Island University as soon as possible at (631) 287-8420.