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Living History: Peter Carey, E.L. Doctorow & Annie Proulx

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Partner:: New Yorker
Location:: SVA Theatre 2
New York, NY
Event Date:: 10.01.10
Speakers:: Peter Carey,; E. L. Doctorow,; Annie Proulx,; Simon Schama
Tags:: film; movies; literature; storytelling; stories

Summary: Peter Carey is the author of eleven novels, including, most recently, "Parrot and Olivier in America." He has won the Man Booker Prize twice, first for "Oscar and Lucinda" and, in 2001, for "True History of the Kelly Gang." Born in Australia, he has lived for twenty years in New York, where he is the executive director of Hunter College's M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing.

E. L. Doctorow is the author of eleven novels, the most recent of which is "Homer & Langley." He has won three National Book Critics Circle Awards, for "Ragtime," "Billy Bathgate," and "The March," and a National Book Award, for "World's Fair." In 1998, he received a National Humanities Medal. His new story collection, "All the Time in the World," comes out next spring and will include "Edgemont Drive," from the April 26th issue of The New Yorker.

Annie Proulx won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, "Postcards," and a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for her second, "The Shipping News." Two of her New Yorker stories have received National Magazine Awards for fiction: "Brokeback Mountain," which was the basis of the Oscar-winning film, and "Them Old Cowboy Songs." Her next book, "Bird Cloud: A Memoir," comes out in January.

Simon Schama is a contributor to The New Yorker and the University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. "Scribble, Scribble, Scribble," a collection of his writing on art, food, politics, and literature, will be published next spring.

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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is the author of eleven novels, including, most recently, "Parrot and Olivier in America." He has won the Man Booker Prize twice, first for "Oscar and Lucinda" and, in 2001, for "True History of the Kelly Gang." Born in Australia, he has lived for twenty years in New York, where he is the executive director of Hunter College's M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing.

E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow is the author of eleven novels, the most recent of which is "Homer & Langley." He has won three National Book Critics Circle Awards, for "Ragtime," "Billy Bathgate," and "The March," and a National Book Award, for "World's Fair." In 1998, he received a National Humanities Medal. His new story collection, "All the Time in the World," comes out next spring and will include "Edgemont Drive," from the April 26th issue of The New Yorker.

Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, "Postcards," and a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for her second, "The Shipping News." Two of her New Yorker stories have received National Magazine Awards for fiction: "Brokeback Mountain," which was the basis of the Oscar-winning film, and "Them Old Cowboy Songs." Her next book, "Bird Cloud: A Memoir," comes out in January.

Simon Schama

Simon Schama is a contributor to The New Yorker and the University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. "Scribble, Scribble, Scribble," a collection of his writing on art, food, politics, and literature, will be published next spring.

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01.: Introduction

01 min 31 sec

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02.: Rejection of Term 'Historical Fiction'

09 min 38 sec

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03.: Annales School of History

04 min 05 sec

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04.: Writing Historical Characters

04 min 33 sec

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05.: Fiction Infused with Historical Context

03 min 02 sec

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06.: The Texture of Daily Life

04 min 22 sec

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07.: Loss and the Passage of Time

02 min 39 sec

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08.: The Voice of Characters

05 min 30 sec

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09.: Narrative Perspective

05 min 08 sec

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10.: Wyoming Stories

03 min 50 sec

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11.: Movie Adaptations

11 min 31 sec

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12.: Reading Non-Fiction

02 min 14 sec

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13.: Q & A

21 min 44 sec

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Annie Proulx: Choice Words on Film Adaptations of Books

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"Brokeback Mountain" author Annie Proulx notes that many writers consider the process of having movies made from books as "consorting with the genitals of money...I think if most writers had their druthers they'd rather people would read the books," says Proulx. "But that's not the time we live in."
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