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SIBYL KEMPSON

A performer points to a sculpture installed in the Whitney's stairwell. Spectators surround her

Marking the summer solstice, Sibyl Kempson and her theater company 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co. return to the Whitney for a performance of 12 SHOUTS TO THE TEN FORGOTTEN HEAVENS.

 

SIBYL KEMPSON—12 SHOUTS TO THE TEN FORGOTTEN HEAVENS, Thursday, June 21, at 6:07 am.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York City.

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Above image credit: Whitney Museum of American Art.

Below: Sibyl Kempson, 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens, Winter Solstice, December 21, 2016, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Photograph © Paula Court.

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EDMUND WHITE

Edmund White is the recipient of PEN’s lifetime achievement award for American fiction, and will join fellow honorees Edna O’Brien (for international literature), Kamau Brathwaite (poetry), Barbara Harshav (translation), Dave Kindred (literary sports writing), Luis Alfaro (American dramatist), Sibyl Kempson (American playwright in mid-career), and Mike Lew (emerging American playwright) at the awards ceremony on Tuesday night.

 

2018 PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARDS, Tuesday, February 20, from 7 pm to 9 pm; reception to follow.

SKIRBALL CENTER, NYU, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York City.

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Edmund White, City Boy (2009, British edition cover). Image credit: Bloomsbury.

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