Pierre Bayard and Umberto Eco with Paul Holdengraber
Saturday, November 17, 2007, 6:00 PM
NYPL: Humanities and Social Sciences Library,
5th Ave and 42nd St.
South Court Auditorium
$15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students
Quoting Umberto Eco, Graham Greene, Montaigne, and a host of other literary giants on the art of being well read without reading well, Bayard reminds us all that there is no shame in asserting your pseudo-literacy. He describes the varieties of “non-reading”—from books that you’ve never heard of to books that you’ve read and forgotten—and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/eventdesc.cfm?id=3641
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