NYU Evening Reading Series
Summer Program Paris
June 30 - July 25, 2008
Location: New York University Paris Campus
56 rue Passy, Paris 75016
Mary Duncan: July 8, 2008 6:oo pm
Breyten Breytenback, the South African writer, started the series with a reading from his book, Windcatcher. Mary read from her chapter, “In Simone de Beauvoir’s Apartment”, and shared the evening with Dinaw Mengestu, the author of The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears.
Other writers included Nahid Rachlin, Janine di Giovanni, Paul Schmidtberger, Marilyn Hacker, Denis Hirson, Viken Berberian, Olivia McCannon, Laura Barber and Alice Notley.