Budapest / Reading / New York City / Chapel Hill / Sarajevo / Chicago / /
Company
John Updike / William Kennedy / Safran / Anchor Books / Joyce Carol Oates / Ann Beattie / Sue Miller / The Corrections / The Lovely Bones / Random House / Ann Tyler / Algonquin Books / Richard Ford / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Iceland / China / India / United States / Ukraine / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
the National Book Award / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Bennington College / Harvard University / Dive From Clausen's Pier / John Nordell/Christian Science Library of America / Bridge By Sven Birkerts One / /
Distinguished Service / Harvard University / Bennington College / National Endowment for the Arts / /
Person
Paul Auster / Jason Schmidt / Donald Hall / Eudora Welty / Jason Epstein / Rick Moody / Brad Leithauser / Tom Sleigh / Stephen Dobyns / Charles Simic / Jill McCorkle / Thomas Pynchon / Helen DeWitt / Lee Smith / Lyn Hejinian / David Markson / Ha Jin / Thom Gunn / Sven Birkerts / A.M. Homes / Robert Stone / Mark Slouka / Adrienne Rich / Paul West / Glyn Maxwell / Lewis Nordan / Billy Collins / Tom Wolfe / Annie Proulx / Philip Roth / Douglas Bauer / Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky / Mark Doty / Alan Shapiro / Jeffrey Eugenides / David Eggers / Dana Gioia / Janet Fitch / Don DeLillo / David Foster Wallace / Rosanna Warren / Mary Robison / David Lehman / Ellen Gilchrist / Allen Kurzweil / Norman Mailer / Aleksandar Hemon / Alice Sebold / Cormac McCarthy / Yusef Komunyakaa / Charles Bernstein / C.K. Williams / Margot Livesey / David Ferry / Arthur Phillips / Joanna Scott / Elizabeth Cox / Barry Hannah / Michael Chabon / Michael Palmer / Jonathan Safran Foer / Donna Tartt / Toni Morrison / Howard Norman / Nancy Lemann / Alan Lightman / Frank Bidart / Louise Glück / Prague Safran Foer / Robert Bly / Thomas Lux / Jonathan Dee / Sharon Olds / Charles Baxter / Mary Jo Salter / George Saunders / Marie Howe / Ward Just / Debora Greger / Robert Coover / Gail Mazur / Maureen Howard / Andre Dubus III / Peter Matthiessen / Jorie Graham / Jonathan Franzen / /
Position
head / Ambassador / founder / elevator inspector / author / editorial director / novelist / particular author / editor / critic / Harper / Interpreter / writer / The Cheer Leader / /
Sven Birkerts, "Literature: Snapshots From the Bridge" U.S. Society and Values, April 2003