Week two of the Summer Literary Seminars – Montreal edition – is shaping up to be a much-appreciated serving of protein in an otherwise fluffy cultural month. Wednesday evening offers a panel featuring editors from The New Yorker, New York Review of Books and Walrus Magazine.
The subject is the state of magazine publishing, but given the line-up of invited guests, it’s easy to imagine questions from the floor will range somewhat more widely. The New Yorker will be represented by fiction editor Deborah Treisman. For the record, Ms. Treisman has said that under her editorship, somewhere between a quarter and a fifth of all short stories published by the magazine tend to be from writers they had never published before.
Associate publisher of the New York Review of Books, Catherine Tice will be on hand. Walrus Magazine is sending senior editor (a position, not age) Jeremy Keehn, who edits most of the magazine’s features and writes about art and culture.
That’s 7 p.m. Wednesday in the de Seve Cinema, Concordia University. 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd.
On Tuesday, Joel Yanofsky will give the last of three lectures, Apologists and Troublemaker: Jewish Writing in Montreal Before and After Mordecai Richler. 10 am to 11 am, at the de Seve Cinema.
Tuesday afternoon, US writers Padgett Powell and Sam Lipsyte will discuss contemporary stylism. (2 pm de Seve Cinema).
More about Deborah Treisman:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/ask/2008/12/questions-for-treisman.html
For a full list of Summer Literary Seminar events, check out www.sumlitsem.org/Montreal
