Event Description
City Lights in conjunction with the Association of University Presses, Princeton University Press and SUNY Press present:
Close Reading Today: A Conversation with Dan Sinykin, Johanna Winant, and Yael Segalovitz (moderated by Samantha Rose Hill)
How can close reading make us better readers, thinkers, and writers? Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant, editors of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press) and Yael Segalovitz, author of How Close Reading Made Us (SUNY Press), discuss their recent work with Samantha Rose Hill.
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PANELISTS BIOS
Yael Segalovitz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Dan Sinykin is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor of English at Emory University and the author of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature.
Johanna Winant is associate professor of English and humanities at Reed College and the author of Lyric Logic.
MODERATOR BIO
Samantha Rose Hill is the author of Hannah Arendt and the editor and translator of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt.
This event is part of University Press Week 2025, which this year celebrates the many ways that university presses and authors Team UP and share ideas that shape conversations around the world. City Lights is proud to partner with Princeton University Press, SUNY Press and other university presses to amplify voices like Dan Sinykin, Johanna Winant, and Yael Segalovitz this week and year round.
Originally recorded on Monday October 20, 2025
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