For 20 years, Bellevue Literary Review has been at the forefront of publishing at intersection of healthcare and the arts. BLR publishes fiction, poetry, & nonfiction about health, illness, and healing. Watch the historic celebration. Co-hosted by BLR editor-in-chief Danielle Ofri and actor Kelly AuCoin
Featuring:
Jill Lepore, New Yorker writer, author of “These Truthsâ€
Abraham Verghese, author of “Cutting For Stoneâ€
Leslie Jamison, BLR Prize Winner, and author of “The Empathy Examsâ€
Michele Harper, author of “The Beauty In Breakingâ€
Edward Hirsch, Poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation
With readings by: Saleem Hue Penny and Shanda McManus
Additional fiction by Robert Oldshue
Dance performance by Samantha Figgins (Alvin Ailey)
Honoring Lisa Sanders, MD, author of “Every Patient Tells a Story,” creator of NY Times “Diagnosis†Column, and consultant for “House, M.D.â€