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An Evening of Discussion on Queer Literature Today
An Evening of Discussion on Queer Literature Today
Michael Silverblatt, Moderator
Charles Flowers, Joseph Olshan, Sarah Schulman, Mitchell Waters
Sunday, June 1st at 7:00 pm
Los Angeles, CA 90048
RSVP to Julia Bensfield at julia@penusa.org or 310-862-1555 ext. 362. Seating is limited.
Michael Silverblatt is the host and founder of KCRW’s “Bookworm,” the country’s premier literary talk-show.
Charles Flowers is the Executive Director of the Lambda Literary Foundation. He has served as the co-chair of the Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbians and gay men in publishing, and was Associate Director of the Academy of American Poets from 2001-2005. Flowers is also the co-author of Golden Men: The Power of Gay Midlife (with Harold Kooden, Ph.D.), and his poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Indiana Review, and Puerto del Sol.
Joseph Olshan is the author of eight novels, the most recent of which, The Conversion, will be published in 2008 His first novel, Clara’s Heart, won the Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers’ Competition and went on to be made into a feature film starring Whoopi Goldberg. Olshan has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian among many others. During the 1990’s he was a regular contributor of book reviews to the Wall Street Journal. For six years was a professor of Creative Writing at New York University where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses. His work has been translated into sixteen languages.
Sarah Schulman is an author, historian, and playwright. She is the author of twelve published books: nine novels, two nonfiction books, and a play. She has received awards from the Guggenheim for Playwriting, the Fulbright for Judaic Studies, in addition to two American Library Association Book Awards (fiction and nonfiction) and three New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowships. She was also a Finalist for the Prix de Rome. Ms. Schulman is currently a Full Professor of English at The College of Staten Island, CUNY, and an Associate at the Goddard College MFA program.
Mitchell Waters has been an agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. for thirteen years. He represents an eclectic group of authors of fiction and non-fiction. Recent titles include The Conversion by Joseph Olshan, Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal, Changing Tides by Michael Thomas Ford, Stray by Sheri Joseph, The Voyeur by Michael Luongo, The Headmaster’s Dilemma by Louis Auchincloss, Greetings from the Gayborhood by Donald Reuter. and the forthcoming Cloris by Cloris Leachman and George Englund
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