<p>If any of you are interested in Literature and are in the Yale area on April 1st, I suggest you go to this, it sounds very interesting (particularly to Sempitern). Sounds like Harold Bloom should be there...</p>
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<p>Yale Hosts Symposium on Why Literature Matters
New Haven, Conn. On April 1, an international assembly of distinguished scholars and writers will meet at Yale for a twoday symposium on the significance of literature in the lives of individuals and the spirit of world events.</p>
<p>Participants include the Israeli novelist and social critic, David Grossman; the playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips; the novelist and New Republic editor, James Wood; the Scottish poet and scholar Robert Crawford; poet, librettist and editor of The Yale Review J.D. McClatchy; poet and Yale faculty member Elizabeth Alexander; awardwinning critic for The New York Review of Books, Daniel Mendelsohn; poet and translator Rosanna Warren; the novelist and shortstory writer Tessa Hadley; former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky; and Anne Fadiman, author of the bestselling Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, who currently serves as the Francis Writer in Residence in Yale College. The other participants and their university affiliations are Maria Rosa Menocal, Ruth Yeazell, Langdon Hammer, Paul Fry and David Bromwich, Yale; Mark Edmundson and Jahan Ramazani, the University of Virginia; Wendy Steiner, University of Pennsylvania; Anthony Grafton, Princeton; Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard; and Declan Kiberd, University College, Dublin.</p>