Free Talk: Sigrid Nunez
The Friend and The Room Next Door author Sigrid Nunez joins us to talk about the experience of seeing her creative work adapted into other mediums, and cinema’s alchemical capacity to both translate and transform a novel’s meaning.
This free Talk will take place on Saturday, October 5 at 1:00pm in the EBM Amphitheater.
With her novels The Friend (winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction) and What Are You Going Through, New York–based author Sigrid Nunez has supplied the extraordinarily rich source material for not one, but two films in the NYFF62 lineup: Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s Spotlight standout The Friend, starring Naomi Watts as a writer mourning the complicated loss of a beloved mentor; and Pedro Almodóvar’s Centerpiece selection The Room Next Door, which follows another writer (Julianne Moore) as she reconnects with a friend from her past (Tilda Swinton) who approaches her with an unusual request. We’re honored to welcome Nunez for a special conversation about her prismatic literary meditations on grief, friendship, and the passage of time; the experience of seeing her creative work adapted into other mediums; and cinema’s alchemical capacity to both translate and transform a novel’s meaning. Moderated by A.O. Scott, critic at large for The New York Times Book Review.
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