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Brooklyn College in cooperation with the English Department, the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, presents Brooklyn on My Mind The Novel about Art Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Travels in the Scriptorium (2007), The Brooklyn Follies (2009), Oracle Night (2011), and most recently, Winter Journal (2012). I Thought My Father was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Siri Hustvedt is the author of four novels, The Sorrows of an American (2009), What I Loved (2011), The Blindfold (2003), and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (2004), as well as two collections of essays, A Plea for Eros (2005) and Mysteries of the Rectangle (2006). Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays (2012) is her most recent book. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Paul Auster. Ben Lerner’s first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press, 2011), was named one of the best books by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Statesmen, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and New York Magazine, among other periodicals. It won the Believer Book Award and was a finalist for theLos Angeles Times book award for “first fiction” and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Prize. He is also the author of three books of poetry: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship, and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. He teaches in the writing program at Brooklyn College. Leonard Lopate ’67, of The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC, New York Public Radio, will be the moderator. Wednesday, March 20, 2013 5:00 p.m. Woody Tanger Auditorium Brooklyn College Library For information: 718.951.5847 [email protected] Twitter: twitter.com/Wolfe_Institute.

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