PEN Center USA’s Author Evening Series presents ‘The Paris Review’

The Author Evening Series celebrates the power of words to inform, entertain, inspire, and foster a vital literary culture. PEN Center USA’s Author Evening Series presents an evening with The Paris Review.

This evening, hosted by editor Lorin Stein, will feature readings and discussions by Paris Review contributors Sarah Manguso, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Southern editor John Jeremiah Sullivan. 

Afterward, PEN Center USA and The Paris Review invite you to join us and the authors for a book signing and complimentary reception with drinks. 

More information here. 

The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

6000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90038

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John Jeremiah Sullivan on the Search for the First Blues Song

A National Magazine Award–winning essayist and the Southern editor of The Paris Review, John Jeremiah Sullivan tells the story of his search for the first blues song, a story that takes us deep into the surprising and forgotten prehistory of pop music. Moderated by Paris Review editor Lorin Stein, with musical illustrations. 

More information here. 

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center

681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, 90291

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Art and Journalism, Past and Present

Join Paris Review Daily contributor Sam Stephenson and the photographer Eugene Richards for a conversation, moderated by Arezoo Moseni, at the New York Public Library.

They will discuss tensions and overlaps of art and journalism, as well as their new books: Stephenson’s Gene Smith’s Sink, a book about the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith, and Richards’s first career retrospective, the photobook The Run-On of Time. 

Sam Stephenson is the author of Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project and The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965. Read his Daily pieces here.

Eugene Richards is a documentary photographer known for his powerful, unflinching exploration of contemporary social issues from the early 1970s to the present. The Run-On of Time is the first comprehensive and critical look at Richards’s lifelong achievements. 

More information here.

New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium

476 Fifth Avenue (42nd St and Fifth Ave), New York, 10018

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