Calendar: Writing Hell: Vasily Grossman and Curzio Malaparte, NYC
October 29, 2009, 6:00 pm
bearing witness from opposite sides of the Eastern Front
6:00 pm Film Screening
7:30 pm Panel Discussion
The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street, New York City
Edwin Frank, editor of NYRB Classics, will moderate a discussion with filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, film and sound editor Walter Murch, Yale historian and New York Review contributor Timothy Snyder, war correspondent Chris Hedges, and NYU's Chair of Italian Studies, Ruth Ben-Ghiat. The panel will be preceded by a screening of Frederick Wiseman's The Last Letter, a film based on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. The event is sponsored by The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at The New School.
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