Writers Patrick McGrath (photo by Basso Cannarsa) and Zadie Smith (photo by Steve Bisgrove) will discuss literature and film at the Morgan
Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave. at 36th St.
Thursday, November 6, $20, 7:00
212-685-0008
www.themorgan.org
www.leconversazioni.it
Started in Capri in 2006 by founding artistic director Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini, Italy’s Le Conversazioni literary festival returns to the Morgan Library on November 6 with a program examining the relationship between film and literature. Critic, director, journalist, producer, writer, and NYU professor Monda will moderate a discussion with a pair of British novelists, Patrick McGrath, author of such books as The Grotesque, Spider, Asylum, and Constance, and Zadie Smith, who has written such books as White Teeth, The Autograph Man, and The Embassy of Cambodia. They will focus on the influence specific films have had on their life and career. Previous Le Conversazioni presentations at the Morgan have brought together Julie Taymor and Jeffrey Eugenides, Isabella Rossellini and Salman Rushdie, Marina Abramovic and Daniel Libeskind, Martin Amis and Isa Buruma, and Jonathan Franzen and Paul Schrader.