Past Continuous: Peter Orner and Sara Lippmann in conversation with Melissa Kirsch

Join The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life and Jewish Book Council for a conversation between Peter Orner (Still No Word From You) and Sara Lippmann (Lech) about memory, inherited memory, and the persistent coexistence of past and present in the Jewish literary imagination. The discussion will be moderated by Melissa Kirsch, deputy editor at The New York Times.

Peter Orner is the author of two novels, three short story collections, and two works of creative nonfiction, and has edited three collected works of oral history. Orner’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, Ploughshares and many other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome,…