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Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours) and noted writer Gay Talese (A Writer's Life), a pioneer in the inventive form of nonfiction writing called The New Journalism, discuss the idea of freedom today, exploring the impact of new technology on twenty-first century literature and journalism with Antonio Monda, Director of the Le Conversazioni literary festival, Capri, Italy. Presented by Fondazione Marilena Ferrari-FMR and The Morgan Library & Museum.
Wednesday, May 5, 6:30 p.m.

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Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours, and Specimen Days. The Hours won the 1999 PEN Faulkner and Pulitzer prizes. His latest novel, By Nightfall, will be published in October 2010.

Gay Talese is the bestselling author of eleven books. He was a reporter for the New York Times from 1956 to 1965, and since then he has written for the Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and other national publications. Gay Talese was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. His groundbreaking article "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was named the "best story Esquire ever published," and he was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called "The New Journalism." His most recent book, A Writer's Life, was published by Knopf in 2006 and reissued in trade paperback by The Random House Publishing Group in July 2007.

Antonio Monda teaches in the Film and Television Department at New York University. He is the Artistic Director of the Literary Festival "Le Conversazioni" and has curated exhibitions for the Guggenheim, MoMA and Lincoln Center. He has written the essays "La Magnifica Illusione", A Journey into American Cinema, "The Hidden God", "Do you Believe?" and the novel "Assoluzione" as well as directing several documentaries, and the award winning film "Dicembre".  His most recent book is a collection of crime stories entitled "Hanno preferito le tenebre." He writes for the cultural pages of "La Repubblica" and the column "Central Park West" in Vanity Fair Italia.

Fondazione Marilena Ferrari-FMR

The Fondazione Marilena Ferrari-FMR promotes and spreads Italian artistic heritage and high quality craftsmanship, both ancient and modern. The Fondazione, supported exclusively by economic resources provided by the Marilena Ferrari-FMR Group, develops studies and research on topics that express the values, history, and identity of the Group itself. The Foundation conceives projects, initiatives and services with the aim of bringing the public at large and new generations into closer contact with the values of art.