About the Event: Join author Amy Reading and former New Yorker staffer Emily Hopkins to discuss Katharine Sergeant White and the literary world she curated in her 36-year editorship of The New Yorker. White was the invisible hand behind an impressive cohort of writers and was especially sympathetic to women writers just getting their start. The discussion will include how the book world looks different when read over her shoulder, her long, productive marriage to E.B. White, what happens when an editor decides to become a writer, and other tales from a rich literary life.

About the Author: Amy Reading is the author of The World She Edited: Katharine S. White Edits The New Yorker and The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con. Her recent book has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the New York Public Library, among others. She is the president of the Executive Board of Buffalo Street Books, on which she has served since 2018.