[Yale-readings] Cynthia Ozick at Slifka

[nancy.kuhl at yale.edu]

Please join us this Thursday at Slifka Center at 4 pm for an afternoon
reading and discussion with Cynthia Ozick

Slifka Center is located at 80 Wall St. Call us for more info: 432 1134

Who is Cynthia Ozick?

Cynthia Ozick has, by her own admittance, chosen art over life. When she
was five years old she confronted a rabbi who told her grandmother,
“Take her home; a girl doesn't have to study.” She has been fighting
ever since, tearing apart conventional beliefs about morality, Judaism
and women for over five decades. She is a tantalizing spinner of tales,
and one of the world’s greatest living writers. But don’t take our word
for it


"Ms. Ozick may be the last person around to believe that writers are, or
ought to be, on the side of the angels, that they constitute an elect of
some sort. But then nobody can get a hold of a message and ride with it
quite as she can." - Dan Hofstadter, Wall Street Journal 

"Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind." -
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times 

"Cynthia Ozick is, for my money, the most accomplished and graceful
literary stylist of our time." - John Sutherland, The New York Times
Book Review 

In her own words: 

"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a
'career,' but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a
writer."

"Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally
discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone,
teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye."

"Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses
itself at the end of a journey."

"After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies."