Benjamin Anastas

For ten years running, Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg has earned a reputation as Brooklyn's premier reading series, where today's literary icons and tomorrow's stars take the stage regularly.  For his last reading from "Too Good to Be True" in 2012, Anastas will be taking the stage at Pete's with Teresa Carpenter, editor of "New […]

In recent weeks the David Petraeus–Paula Broadwell scandale militaire has generated much hand-wringing about the ethics of biography.  The Leon Levy Center for Biography will address the issues raised as well as others with a panel discussion on Monday, December 10, at 5:30pm, including a remarkable lineup: two Pulitzer Prize biographers, David Levering Lewis and […]