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Patti Smith and Sam Shepard @ The 92nd Street Y

January 22, 2010 – 4:28 pm

Sam Shepard and Patti Smith at the 92nd St. Y. © 2010 Nancy Crampton. All rights reserved.“We’re not prepared, but we never have been, and we’re still here,” Patti Smith announced as she and Sam Shepard sat down on the two armchairs on the stage of the 92nd Street Y last night, facing the sold-out crowd. They read, in a sort of call-and-response fashion, excerpts from their newest works peppered with some of Smith’s poetry and a couple of pleasantly unrehearsed musical numbers at the end.

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RECKONING WITH TORTURE: MEMOS AND TESTIMONIES FROM THE “WAR ON TERROR”

October 16, 2009 – 12:37 pm

Ishmael Beah. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center. Eight years ago, September 11th transformed New York City into a crowded hive of anxiety. Since then, there have been innumerable changes in our lives. The obvious ones include soldiers patrolling streets, bridges, tunnels, transportation hubs, and the now commonplace presence of folding tables and police officers prepared to check bags at subway stations. But there was much more going on than we knew…

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BOMB’s Park Lit Reading 2009

July 29, 2009 – 12:06 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out to BOMB’s Park Lit reading in Tompkins Square Park last Wednesday. Perfect weather and a dynamic group of readers made for a fun evening in the park (minus the annoying teenager strumming his guitar in the background, but we’ll write that off as Tompkins Square charm). We have a video recap for you after the jump.

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Hari Kunzru and Porochista Khakpour at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop

March 30, 2009 – 6:09 pm

What was billed as a night of “laughter and thinking” actually was more nervous titters and revolutionary undertones as writers Hari Kunzru and Porochista Khakpour read some subtly inflammatory pieces from their most recent works.

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