Literature
A Conversation with Andre Aciman Thursday, May 31 8:00 PM Conversation and book signing Novelist and memoirist Andre Aciman is best known for his novel Call Me By Your Name, made into a 2017 feature film, and which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, recounts his family’s odyssey as they were forced to leave their native Alexandria following then-president Nasser’s overt anti-Semitism. Michiko Kakutani reviewed Out of Egypt for The New York Times, calling it a “remarkable memoir…that leaves the reader with a mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world.” Aciman’s 2017 novel, The Enigma Variations, echoes themes of love and the nature of romance that appear in his earlier novels. Aciman speaks with NAC Literary Committee member, David Masello about his life as a writer, as a teacher of writing (currently at the Graduate Center of City University of New York), and the inspirations for his works. Photo credit: Sigrid Estrada
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