Everybody’s talkin’
The New York Times reports today that the kids are grooving on “spoken-word events, lectures, debates, readings, and panel discussions.” Of course they are. Who could resist the opportunity to see French author and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy explain America to Tina Brown, the Brit who edited Vanity Fair and The New Yorker? The Times says 900 people, including Lauren Bacall and Diane Von Furstenburg, turned out for that January event and just as many people came to see Bill Clinton interview historian John Hope Franklin in October. Imagine how many more would have shown up if they’d borrowed a page from Don King and promoted it as “The Man From Hope and A Man Named Hope.” Says New York Public Library director of public programs Paul Holdengräber: “I feel like I’m running a rock concert series.”
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