Tuesday April 8th - Friday April 11th
Tuesday, April 8
Artists at Work
12:00–1:00 p.m., HQ 134
How do artists make things?
Enjoy lunch with award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem and photographer and longtime collaborator Gregory Crewdson.
Hosted by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
Generative Workshop: Fiction
3:30–4:30 p.m., HQ 134
Writing with the body
Where does voice begin? Come prepared to write—and move—with novelist Catherine Lacey.
Open to members of the Yale community, with preference given to Yale students.
RSVP here.
Keynote Fiction Reading and Reception
5:00–6:30 p.m., HQ L02/L90
Fiction’s mysteries
Novelists Jonathan Lethem and Catherine Lacey read from their work and discuss the role of fiction in an age of information—and misinformation—with Meghan O’Rourke, followed by a reception.
Wednesday, April 9
Ask Me Anything
9:00–10:00 a.m., HQ 276
How to become a critic
Enjoy coffee and breakfast with Joanna Biggs, TYR deputy editor, and Adam Dalva, TYR contributing editor and board member of the National Book Critics Circle, as they provide practical advice about working as a critic today. Bring your questions!
Writers at Work
12:00-1:00 p.m., Location TBA
What is art criticism?
Enjoy lunch with Lucy Sante, critic and memoirist, and TYR senior editor Dan Fox as they discuss the pleasures and challenges of writing about art.
Introduced by Joanna Fiduccia, assistant professor of history of art at Yale.
A Closer Look
3:30-4:30 P.M., HQ 276
Diving into the Situationist International archive at Yale
Lucy Sante speaks about the the avant-garde collective and its papers, which are held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Introduced by TYR senior editor Dan Fox.
Keynote Roundtable
5:00–6:30 p.m., HQ L02/L90
What is a magazine editor for?
A conversation on the art of editing with Emily Greenhouse (The New York Review of Books), Radhika Jones (Vanity Fair), Deborah Treisman (The New Yorker), and Meghan O’Rourke (The Yale Review).
Introduced by TYR senior editor Sam Huber, and moderated by TYR senior editor James Surowiecki.
Cosponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.
Thursday, April 10
Artists at Work
12:00–1:00 p.m., HQ 134
How do artists collaborate?
Husband-and-wife duo Matt Berninger (lead singer of the National) and poet and editor Carin Besser (formerly of The New Yorker) discuss their long-standing musical collaboration and the challenges and delights of co-creation.
Hosted by award-winning playwright and Yale professor Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Lunch will be served.
Generative Workshop: Poetry
3:30–4:30 p.m., Location TBA
Mapping memory
Write with Ocean Vuong. A workshop focusing on the often protracted space of a poem, emphasizing process over product.
Open to members of the Yale community, with preference given to Yale students.
RSVP here.
Reading and Reception
5:00–6:30 p.m., HQ L02/L90
Poet as novelist, novelist as poet
Writers Raven Leilani and Ocean Vuong read from their work and discuss writing across genre with Meghan O’Rourke.
Introduced by Maggie Millner, TYR senior editor, with a reception to follow.
Friday, April 11
Generative Workshop: Prose
10:00–11:00 a.m., HQ 134
Writing and rewriting characters
Come prepared to write with novelist Raven Leilani, author of Luster. A series of exercises will focus on finding unfamiliar ways to write about characters.
Open to members of the Yale community, with preference given to Yale students.
RSVP here.
Archives Out Loud
12:00–1:00 p.m., HQ 134
Revisiting Robert Frost in The Yale Review
Enjoy lunch with Jacqueline Goldsby and Maureen N. McLane as they discuss the legacy of Robert Frost and his poems, including those published in The Yale Review.
Archives Out Loud
2:00–3:00 p.m., HQ 134
God and William F. Buckley at Yale
Journalist and former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley, talks with Pulitzer Prize–winning Yale historian Beverly Gage about how Buckley remade American conservatism.
Hosted by James Surowiecki.
Student Reading
3:30–4:30 p.m., HQ 131
Featuring students from The Yale Review’s reading program!