Author event: New York Calling
New York Calling editors Marshall Berman and Brian Berger spoke on December 7th at Book Culture bookstore in New York's Morningside Heights neighborhood, near Columbia University. The store recently posted a Q&A with the two authors on Book Culture's website. A excerpt from the feature:
Before the readings, we had a few minutes to ask Brian and Marshall about their personal literary interests. Here's what they had to say:What books are you currently reading?
Brian: I'm always reading something by Gilbert Sorrentino, most recently it's Aberration of Starlight. I'm also reading David Markson's The Last Novel, and collected poems and dance writings of Edwin Denby. Other recent reads include Jim Knipfel's Noogie's Time to Shine and The Confidence Man by Herman Melville.
Marshall: Interpretation of Dreams, for a course I'm currently teaching: Political Theory–Plato to Marx. In class we discuss Freud's dreams, his patient's dreams and our own dreams. I also read a Colin Dexter detective story set in Oxford, a landscape I recently returned to after 40 years. I returned to Oxford last year to teach some workshops, and it was wild walking through these 18th century rooms, the same rooms I had walked through as an 18 year-old-kid.
Brian puts me to shame. The school term is almost over, then I'll have some time to read more books!
Read the full author Q & A on the Book Culture website
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