Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for George Scialabba at Upstairs on the Square.
George
Scialabba is a book critic living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe,
Dissent, the Virginia
Quarterly Review, The
Nation, The American
Prospect, and many others. Scialabba received the
first "Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award" from the
National Book Critics Circle. He attended Harvard University
where he graduated in 1969. Divided
Mind, a collection of his reviews, was published in 2006 and
his collection of essays, What Are
Intellectuals Good For?, was published in 2009.
Please note: this is an off-site event
to be held at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge, MA.
PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists/Editors,
Novelists) New England is an
organization of published authors, aspiring writers, and all who love the
written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere.
PEN New England is a branch of
PEN American Center,
and part of International PEN, the oldest international literary organization
and also the oldest human rights organization in the world.
