Dwight Garner, senior editor of The Book Review, wrote about “The Mighty Y” today on the New York Times Paper Cuts blog:

GalleyCat served up a timely reminder yesterday of the busy, and tasty, goings-on over at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.

Whenever I’m poking around in back issues of the Book Review, I always stop to gaze in mild wonder at old 92nd Street Y ads. Has this institution ever had a dull season?

Click open the one at left – I picked it almost at random - and have a look. It’s from September, 1963.

How about that for a line-up: Singer, Calisher, McCarthy, Roth, Levertov, Spender, Dickey, Shapiro, Rukeyser, Cheever, Tate, Nabokov, Wilbur, oh my.

If I could rent a time machine for a week or two, that 1963 Y season might just make my To Do list.

Well Mr. Garner, may we take you “back to the future”? Check out who’s on the schedule now: Roddy Doyle, A.L. Kennedy, Li-Young Lee, Franz Wright, Garrison Keillor, Paul Muldoon, Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, Mario Vargas Llosa and many more.

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