Lawrence Weschler will read from his forthcoming work, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (McSweeney’s), on Mon., Feb. 13, 7 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall in the Silver Center (100 Washington Square East, 1st Floor). The reading will be followed by a conversation with documentary film director Errol Morris (“Fog of War,” “Thin Blue Line”).
Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and long-time New Yorker writer, will read from his forthcoming work, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (McSweeney’s), on Mon., Feb. 13, 7 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall in the Silver Center (100 Washington Square East, 1st Floor). The reading will be followed by a conversation with documentary film director Errol Morris (“Fog of War,” “Thin Blue Line”).
Everything That Rises was recently characterized by Publisher’s Weekly, in a starred review, as “charming, idiosyncratic, and deeply intelligent.” The same could be said of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, which Weschler has headed since 2001 and which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The San Francisco Chronicle has described the Institute as “newly invigorated” under his watch. The Boston Globe listed the Institute as a defining feature of New York, and indeed one of the catalysts of Harvard’s famous 2002 “brain drain,” since Manhattan, “the home of the New York Review of Books and Foreign Affairs, the New York Institute for the Humanities, and the United Nations, has an allure that Cambridge and Crimson can’t match.”
Weschler was also recently named artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF). He’ll maintain a dual appointment with NYU and CHF.
The event is free and open to the public, which may RSVP to 212.998.2100. Reporters interested in attending the event should contact James Devitt, Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.
Who: Lawrence Weschler, director, Institute for the Humanities at NYU; filmmaker Errol Morris What: Reading and Conversation: Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences When: Mon., Feb. 13, 7 p.m. Where: NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East)
EDITOR’S NOTE
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU was established in 1976 for promoting the exchange of ideas among academics, professionals, politicians, diplomats, writers, journalists, musicians, painters, and other artists in New York City-and between all of them and the city. It currently comprises 190 fellows. Throughout the year, the NYIH organizes numerous public events and symposia.