April 30, 2010

PEN American Center - Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future


Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future
Friday, April 30
Scandinavia House, 
58 Park Avenue, 
New York City
3:30–5 p.m.


With Preston L. Allen, Alex Epstein, Aleksandar Hemon, Yiyun Li, and Martin Solares; moderated by Deborah Treisman


Free and open to the public. No reservations.


Co-sponsored by The American-Scandinavian Foundation




What virtues and challenges are unique to the short story? How flexible is the form? And why is it that, even now—after Poe, Chekov, Hemingway, O’Connor, Nabokov, and Munro—the short story often gets less respect, in terms of prizes and critical esteem, than the novel? Join acclaimed practitioners of the form from Bosnia, Israel, China, Mexico, and the United States, for a conversation with The New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about the past, present, and future of the short story.


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