When: Sunday, April 29
Where: Where: New York Public Library,Celeste Bartos Forum: 5th Ave. & 42nd St. (Enter on 42nd St.)
What time: 2–3:30 p.m.
With Breyten Breytenbach, Carolin Emcke, Philip Gourevitch, Adam Michnik, Salman Rushdie, Lawrence Weschler
Tickets: $15/$10 PEN members, library donors, seniors, and students with valid ID
Purchase tickets from Smarttix: www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444
Curated by Philip Gourevitch, Lawrence Weschler, and Paul Holdengräber; co-sponsored by LIVE from the NYPL; co-presented by The Paris Review
A celebration of the life and work of Ryszard Kapuscinski, visionary journalist and world-besotted fabulist, and one of the great travelers of the 20th century (true heir to his hero and subject of his last book, Travels with Herodotus). Kapuscinski was a living link between Bruno Schulz and Gabriel García Márquez, with whom he was still team-teaching classes to young Latin American journalists only a few years back. Above all, he was a dear, sweet man—brave, kind, and fiercely clear-seeing. Salman Rushdie, Philip Gourevitch, Adam Michnik, Lawrence Weschler, Carolin Emcke, and Breyten Breytenbach join together to contemplate the lasting significance of this Polish master and longtime PEN supporter, who died earlier this year in Warsaw at the age of 74.