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The New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
NY, NY 10018
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LIVE from the NYPL presents
 Eric Bogosian
 Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Creator of monologues and solo shows Eric Bogosian brings his award-winning wit and theatrics to the NYPL. NOTE: This event is now at 9pm. TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Length: 1 hr 00 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.

Come to our first Late Night at the NYPL: A Conversation with Eric Bogosian & Co.

"A New Literacy"

Has literature become an old-fashioned and worn-out medium? Should writers still be considered "authors"? Or are they simply worker bees participating in a much larger context? Is everything written simply a pretext for the future screenplay? Is there such a thing as point of view and can it still be transmitted to an audience via prose and dramatic writing? Where does the enthusiasm for the written word lie today? Comic books? Hip-hop lyrics? In the vast universe of the corporate-controlled written word, has the romantic notion of artistry been lost?

Five Authors

Eric Bogosian: Talk Radio subUrbia
John Guare: Atlantic City, Six Degrees of Separation
John Patrick Shanley: Moonstruck, Doubt
Stephen Adly Guirgis: Jesus Hopped the A Train, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

One editor
From DC/VERTIGO, a graphic novel publisher & author
Jonathan Vankin: Vertigo Pop-Bangkok, Witching