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Festival 2016

Patti Smith delivers the 2016 Windham-Campbell Lecture. “Devotion,” an expanded version of the lecture, will be published by Yale University Press in 2017.

Festival 2016

Hilton Als and Professor Jacqueline Goldsby discuss the legacy of one of our most significant and complicated authors in post-Civil Rights, post-Ferguson, almost post-Obama America.

Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and the Whitney Humanities Center.

Festival 2016

Borges famously said that he imagined paradise to be a kind of library. Many writers would agree. Yale Press Director and NHFPL Board Member John Donatich talks to novelists C. E.Morgan, Jerry Pinto, and Tessa Hadley about the role that libraries have played in the development of their imaginative work.

Co-sponsored by the New Haven Free Public Library and Yale University Press.

Festival 2016

Resisting fixed identities is at the heart of creative endeavor. This might be especially true of gender. Professor Amy Hungerford talks to Hilton Als, Helen Garner, and Tessa Hadley about how this resistance comes to shape the work of the writer.

Co-sponsored by the New Haven Free Public Library and the Department of English.

Festival 2016

Prize recipient Hannah Moscovitch reads from her play Bunnyat the 2016 festival.

Festival 2016

Abbie Spallen reads from her play Strandline at the 2016 festival.

Festival 2016

Prize recipient Jerry Pinto reads from his novel Em and the Big Hoom at the 2016 festival.

Festival 2016

Prize recipient C. E. Morgan reads from her novel The Sport of Kings at the 2016 festival.

Festival 2016

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins reads from his new play Everybody at the 2016 festival.

Festival 2016

Prize recipient Tessa Hadley reads from her short story “Dido's Lament,” which first appeared in the August 8 & 15, 2016 issue of The New Yorker.

Festival 2016

Prize recipient Helen Garner reads from her essay “The Insults of Age” at the 2016 festival.

Festival 2016

Prize recipient Stanley Crouch reads from the unpublished second volume of his Charlie Parker biography at the 2016 festival.

Festival 2016

Prize recipient Hilton Als reads from an unpublished essay at the 2016 festival.