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The 2024 WIT Literary Festival opens with a wide-ranging conversation between Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach) and Joseph O’Neill (Netherland, Godwin)—two award-winning novelists rightly celebrated as restlessly inventive and deeply compassionate storytellers.

Stephen Greenblatt & Emily Wilson
Join literary historian Stephen Greenblatt (The Swerve, Second Chances) and scholar-translator Emily Wilson (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey) for a conversation about renewal in literature and life—the vitality of Shakespeare and Greek classics, and the role that the two of them play in animating and elucidating these works for contemporary readers.

WORLD PREMIERE Three Tall Persian Women, by Awni Abdi-Bahri Directed by Dalia Ashurina August 30 through October 13 Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre Golnar, a punkish Iranian-American millennial, returns home to […]