If you Google “walking,” “New York” and “quotation,” one that regularly pops up is Janice Dickinson’s remark, "I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York." I can’t tell whether she now thinks this was a good thing or a bad thing, but she seems to have enjoyed it at the time.
Life being like that, on Saturday I’ll be flying two and a half thousand miles to New York to do a bit of walking (and indeed talking). To be precise I’m going there to be on a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival. And to be strictly accurate I’m not going all that way solely to be on the panel. I was planning a trip to New York anyway and it made sense that it would coincide with the gig. A report will follow. The details as follow:
1:00 P.M. Walker in the City. Nigerian author Teju Cole (Open City) British writer Geoff Nicholson (The Lost Art of Walking) and Argentine Sergio Chejfec (My Two Worlds) read from their books and discuss the distance characters cover—geographic and metaphysical—as they walk through and around cities.
Moderated by Edmund White.
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