Miranda Shafer

A recent Happy Ending Music and Reading Series focused on (modern) legends and beliefs. Listen to readings from Tea Obreht, Dean Bakopoulos, and Fernanda Eberstadt here.

On a recent Tuesday, New York Public Radio's Jerome L. Greene Space hosted a literary salon as part of the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival. Download the talk, “From Russia with Love,” ...

On a recent Saturday, "The Writers Studio Reading Series" celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Yale Review. Listen to Louise Glück, Caryl Phillips, Edmund White and Michael Cunning...

The work of Jennifer Egan, Julia Holmes, Teddy Wayne and Elizabeth and the Catapult was on display at the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series last month.

When Did Vampires Become So Hot?

Talk to Me: Scalding Debate at the Tea Party Panel

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Pluto’s Best Frenemy

Living Next to the Enemy

PEN World Voices Festival: Writers Behind Bars

Jason Jones mocks news on The Daily Show, but it wasn't so funny when his interview with journalist Maziar Bahari helped land Bahair in jail.

Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

Justine Hardy's In the Valley of the Mist takes us to Kashmir, a land of beauty and unceasing conflict.

Patti Smith's lead guitarist riffs on speeding, dreaming, and playing on Patti's wavelength.

The Problem with Being a Model Minority

Michael Cunningham and Gay Talese asked the big questions about truthful writing in the information age at the Morgan Library.

Christopher Hitchens on Freedom from Fear

Food writers David Sax and Arthur Schwartz kibbitz about the great American deli for an event at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Listen to their discussion here.

Opening night of the PEN World Voice Festival brought together literary superstars from around the world. 

In celebration of the bard's birthday, Cornelia Street Café hosted readings from William Shakespeare's sonnets. Listen to the readings and Elizabethan music here.

Jamaica Kincaid's coming-of-age novel Annie John received this year's Clifton Fadiman Medal...