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On the occasion of The New York Review of Books' 35th Anniversary, Robert Silvers, Jason Epstein, Susan Sontag, Jonathan Miller, Darryl Pinckney, Joan Didion, Alma Guillermoprieto, James Fenton, and Elizabeth Hardwick participated in an evening of Readings at the 92nd Street Y.

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Robert Silvers
Introduction
Jason Epstein
Reading F.W. Dupee's "James Baldwin and the 'Man'," 1963
Susan Sontag
Reading from her essay "The Last Intellectual," 1978
Jonathan Miller
Reading from his essay "The Call of the Wild," 1976
Darryl Pinckney
Reading from his essay "Slouching Toward Washington," 1995
Joan Didion
Reading from her essay "In El Salvador: Soluciones," 1982
Alma Guillermoprieto
Reading from Tatyana Tolstaya's "Boris the First," 1994
James Fenton
Reading from his essay "The Cherry Orchard Has to Come Down," 1996
Elizabeth Hardwick
Reading from her essay "The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King," 1968