Manhattan Writers Speak – 2011 Fall Reading Series
Ink on Shrinks: Writers in on Therapy
Save your Mondays – Mark your calendars – First Reading 9/26/11
For the Stony Brook Manhattan Writers Speak series this fall, we will hear not-to-be-missed readings from writers about therapy and their therapists, real and fictionalized.
Monday, September 26
Meg Wolitzer will read Août , her short story about analysands left adrift in the month of August by their vacationing analyst;
Dan Menaker will read from his novel The Treatment; and
Richard Panek from his NY Times piece “My Analyst, My Neighbor”
Monday, October 17
Renée Shafransky will discuss depth psychology in character
Monday, November 7
Dinitia Smith will read her New York Magazine cover article “What Would Freud Think?”
National Book Award Winner Andrew Solomon will read from his book, Noonday Demon
Monday, December 5
David Rakoff exposes the self-serving woes of a patient when his analyst takes ill–in an essay from Half-Empty;
New Yorker Patricia Marx will read from her novel;
Roger Rosenblatt will discuss his memoir account of the various ways in therapy that he, his wife, his son-in-law and his grandchildren responded to his daughter’s sudden passing
All readings free and open to the public.
Receptions to follow.
Wolitzer, Panek, and Menaker
7pm Monday, September 26
Stony Brook Manhattan
101-113 East 27th Street 3rd Floor
rsvp to: magdaleneab@mac.com
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See Daniel Menaker interviewed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8ididsPGI
Watch Meg Wolitzer in conversation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJ41jxKFiU
Listen to Andrew Solomon talk about Noonday Demon and his new book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OWlD36CeDs
Listen to David Rakoff read from Half Empty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waoalpTLhsk