Writing Death
Wednesday, November 30th | 6:00-8:00PM
7th Floor Commons, 20 Cooper Square, NYC Open to the public
Refreshments will be served, please RSVP here.
Presented by NYU Journalism and The Center for the Study of Transformative Lives, moderated by Distinguished Writer in Residence, Pete Hamill- join us for a panel discussion on writing death. Featuring Sam Roberts of The New York Times, who writes many of the obituaries for that newspaper, he also writes book reviews, and does a weekly TV show focused on New York 1. At the same table will be NYU Journalism Professor Katie Roiphe whose acclaimed study of death called The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End has much to teach all students of the human condition. She takes us through many of the final hours of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter.