Liesl Schillinger's guest appearances

Liesl Schillinger

Kankakee Public Library Podcasts

Film Forum Podcasts

Keen On

The Thing About France

David Sedaris

Donald Trump

Victor Davis Hanson

Craig Wright

Jon Levy

Kyla Schuller

Daniel Levin

Tiffany Shlain

Thomas Frank

Kurt Andersen

Yanis Varoufakis

Nicholson Baker

Jon Mooallem

Steven Kotler

Keith Ferrazzi

OwlTail

Liesl Schillinger is a New York–based critic, translator, and moderator. She grew up in Midwestern college towns, studied comparative literature at Yale, worked at The New Yorker for more than a decade and became a regular critic for The New York Times Book Review in 2004. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Vogue, Foreign Policy, The London Independent on Sunday, and many other publications. Her recent translations include the novels “Every Day, Every Hour,” by Natasa Dragnic (2012, Viking), and “The Lady of the Camellias,” by Alexandre Dumas, fils (Penguin Classics, 2013). Wordbirds, her illustrated lexicon of necessary neologisms for the 21st Century (Simon &amp; Schuster), comes out in Oct. 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liesl Schillinger is a New York–based critic, translator, and moderator. She grew up in Midwestern college towns, studied comparative literature at Yale, worked at The New Yorker for more than a decade and became a regular critic for The New York Times Book Review in 2004. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Vogue, Foreign Policy, The London Independent on Sunday, and many other publications. Her recent translations include the novels “Every Day, Every Hour,” by Natasa Dragnic (2012, Viking), and “The Lady of the Camellias,” by Alexandre Dumas, fils (Penguin Classics, 2013). Wordbirds, her illustrated lexicon of necessary neologisms for the 21st Century (Simon &amp; Schuster), comes out in Oct. 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

DAILY: Liesl Schillinger on What to Read in the Age of Corona

I met Liesl Schillinger, the literary critic and translator, 11 years ago. I had just been appointed as a negotiator for France at the UN Security Council in New York. As a critic for The New York Times, she was invited to every book party in town, and she generously took me to every one. Here we talked about translation (4:55), French books (13:54), and secret recommendations for visiting France (19:58). She also surprised me by declaring her love for the most unexpected French singer (21:17).

I met Liesl Schillinger, the literary critic and translator, 11 years ago. I had just been appointed as a negotiator for France at the UN Security Council in New York. As a critic for The New York Times, she was invited to every book party in town, and she generously took me to every one. Here we talked about translation (4:55), French books (13:54), and secret recommendations for visiting France (19:58). She also surprised me by declaring her love for the most unexpected French singer (21:17).

Liesl Schillinger is best known for writing for monumental publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and London’s TheIndependent on Sunday, but this Yale graduate’s resume is as varied andinteresting as she is. She began her professional writing career at The New Yorker in 1988 as a fact checker, but then became a theatre and dance editor for themagazine. She spent a year living in Moscow as an editor of the English supplement of Moscow Magazine and wrote for the New Republic magazine there. Schillinger is the cousin of Kankakee’s Rosemary Pistorius and is a native of Illinois. You will want to seize the opportunity to listen to this intriguing writer. This program was sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Liesl Schillinger is best known for writing for monumental publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and London’s The Independent on Sunday, but this Yale graduate’s resume is as varied and interesting as she is. She began her professional writing career at The New Yorker in 1988 as a fact checker, but then became a theatre and dance editor for the magazine. She spent a year living in Moscow as an editor of the English supplement of Moscow Magazine and wrote for the New Republic magazine there. Schillinger is the cousin of Kankakee’s Rosemary Pistorius and is a native of Illinois. You will want to seize the opportunity to listen to this intriguing writer. This program was sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Book Critic Liesl Schillinger