New York Writer's Conference
April 21-22-23 • The Puck Building
Founded and Produced by Victor Harwood

Panels With a Purpose

• Over 150 Speakers
A Partial Listing Includes:

Freedom Watch

• Kerry Kennedy, The RFK Center for Human Rights
• Gara LaMarche, PEN America
• Anne Nelson, The Committee to Protect Journalists
• Liu Zongren from China
• Boris Vetrov from the Soviet Union
• Ninotchka Roca from the Philippines
• Clara Gyorgyey from Hungary

Writing About AIDS
• Richard Goldstein, Village Voice
• Assotto Saint
• Darrell Yates Rist
• Ira Silverberg, Grove Press
• Lisa Edelstein
• Bruce Lambert, New York Times


Cultural Anthropologists
• Anthony Haden-Guest, Vanity Fair
• Patricia Morrisroe, New York Magazine
• Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair
• Barbara Probst Solomon
• Jesse Kornbluth, Vanity Fair
• Bruce Weber, New York Times



Media Watching
• Edwin Diamond, New York Magazine
• E. Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair
• D.D. Guttenplan, Newsday
• Larry Zuckerman, Time Magazine
• John Alter, Newsweek
• Michael Massing

From Hard News to Infotainment
• Rafael Abramovitz, Fox Television
• Bill Boggs, Morton Downey, Jr. Show
• Steven Weinstock, WNET - The Eleventh Hour
• Rick MacArthur, Harpers
• Maury Povich, Fox Television
• Jeff Cohen, FAIR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


FICTION AS NON FICTION
Non Fiction as Fiction
The Blurring of Literature
• George Plimpton
• Norman Mailer
• Gay Talese
• Susan Brownmiller

Friday Night Roundtable
•Jimmy Breslin
• Pete Hamill
• Jay McInerney
• Rudy Wurlitzer

From the Novel to the Screen
• Rona Jaffe
• Bret Easton Ellis
• Scott Spencer
• Jay McInerney
• Guy Gallo

The Monologists: Writer as Performer
• Spalding Gray
• Jeff Weiss
• Reno
• Holly Hughes
• Stuart Sherman


New Writers
• Mary Gaitskill
• Ann Hood
• David Payne
• Trey Ellis
• Molly Moynahan
• Dennis Cooper
• Jill Eisenstadt
• Michael Drinkard
• Brad Gooch
• Sidney Filson

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