Celebrating 40 Years of Great Writing
Calvin Trillin to take part in Confrontation’s 100th issue commemoration at
Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, Sunday, April 27

Brooklyn, N.Y. – The 100th issue and 40th anniversary of Confrontation, Long Island University’s award-winning literary magazine, will be commemorated at the Brooklyn Campus on Sunday, April 27, from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Among the guests slated to be on hand is journalist and humorist Calvin Trillin, who will read from work by his late wife Alice, that was published in Confrontation.

For its publishing milestone, Confrontation magazine is reprinting works by some of its early authors – Arthur Miller, W.H. Auden, Alvin Toffler, Cynthia Ozick and I.B. Singer – as well as new fiction and poetry from writers around the world. Confrontation was founded in 1968 at the University’s C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, N.Y., where it is still based.

In the course of its 40-year history, the magazine has won numerous awards and has been cited in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly and Poets & Writers.

The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at the Brooklyn Campus, which is located at Flatbush and DeKalb avenues in downtown Brooklyn.

For more information, call (516) 299-2720 or e-mail confrontation@liu.edu. Visit the magazine’s Web site at www.liu.edu/confrontation.

Posted: March 18, 2008

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