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X-WR-CALDESC:First\, a presentation on the life of Jane Austen.\n\nThen the
  92nd Street Y Presentation.\nJoin a group of celebrated writers and criti
 cs — including Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan\, bestselling novelist 
 Kevin Kwan\, Helen Fielding\, acclaimed memoirist Vivian Gornick\, and The
  New Yorker’s Alexandra Schwartz — for a reading and conversation about Ja
 ne Austen\, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of her birth.\n\n\n“Wh
 at genius\, what integrity it must have required in face of all that criti
 cism\, in the midst of that purely patriarchal society\, to hold fast to t
 he thing as [she] saw it without shrinking\,” writes Virginia Woolf\, in A
  Room of One’s Own\, of Jane Austen. More than anything\, Austen wrote wit
 h wit\, elegance\, and extraordinary emotional truthfulness about the live
 s of women\; their friendships\, their desires\, and their complex inner w
 orlds. Her novels — Pride and Prejudice\, Emma\, Persuasion\, and others —
  are “as nearly flawless as any fiction could be” (Eudora Welty)\, her cha
 racters vivid\, complex\, and alive\, spawning countless adaptations and i
 ncalculable influence on popular and literary culture in the centuries aft
 er her death.\n\nIn a special reading and conversation on the 250th annive
 rsary of her birth\, hear a group of extraordinary contemporary writers on
  Austen’s legacy — how she has remained in the cultural bloodstream for so
  long\, her influence on their own work\, and much more
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DESCRIPTION:First\, a presentation on the life of Jane Austen.\n\nThen the 
 92nd Street Y Presentation.\nJoin a group of celebrated writers and critic
 s — including Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan\, bestselling novelist K
 evin Kwan\, Helen Fielding\, acclaimed memoirist Vivian Gornick\, and The 
 New Yorker’s Alexandra Schwartz — for a reading and conversation about Jan
 e Austen\, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of her birth.\n\n\n“Wha
 t genius\, what integrity it must have required in face of all that critic
 ism\, in the midst of that purely patriarchal society\, to hold fast to th
 e thing as [she] saw it without shrinking\,” writes Virginia Woolf\, in A 
 Room of One’s Own\, of Jane Austen. More than anything\, Austen wrote with
  wit\, elegance\, and extraordinary emotional truthfulness about the lives
  of women\; their friendships\, their desires\, and their complex inner wo
 rlds. Her novels — Pride and Prejudice\, Emma\, Persuasion\, and others — 
 are “as nearly flawless as any fiction could be” (Eudora Welty)\, her char
 acters vivid\, complex\, and alive\, spawning countless adaptations and in
 calculable influence on popular and literary culture in the centuries afte
 r her death.\n\nIn a special reading and conversation on the 250th anniver
 sary of her birth\, hear a group of extraordinary contemporary writers on 
 Austen’s legacy — how she has remained in the cultural bloodstream for so 
 long\, her influence on their own work\, and much more
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SUMMARY:92nd Street Y Presents:  A Celebration of Jane Austen: Jennifer Ega
 n\, Kevin Kwan\, Helen Fielding\, Vivian Gornick\, and Alexandra Schwartz 
 (In Center)
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