PEN: HAROLD BLOOM

HAROLD BLOOM
From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence
A conversation with Paul Holdengraber

"Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is itself the form of life, which has no other form."
--Harold Bloom, The Anatomy of Influence.

On the closing day of the PEN World Voices Festival, HAROLD BLOOM, the Yale University’s Sterling Professor the Humanities. will join Paul Holdengraber for a discussion LIVE from the NYPL. Now in his eighth decade, Bloom will reflect back on his life-long love affair with literature. In a far-ranging conversation, Bloom with revisit his classic work of literary criticism The Anxiety of Influence. Bloom will also discuss Till I End My Song, his recently published gathering of last poems, and his career-spanning "critical self-portrait" The Anatomy of Influence.