BLR@20

BLR is 20. Come watch our 20th Anniversary celebration!

Featuring:

Jill LePore, New Yorker writer, author of “These Truths”
Abraham Verghese, MD, author of “Cutting for Stone”
Leslie Jamison, essayist, BLR Prize Winner, and author of “The Empathy Exams”
Michele Harper, MD, author of “The Beauty in Breaking”
Edward Hirsch, poet, President of the Guggenheim Foundation

Honoring Lisa Sanders, MD, author of “Every Patient Tells a Story,” creator of NY Times “Diagnosis” column, and consultant for “House, M.D.”
plus readings by Shanda McManus and Saleem Hue Penny
and dance performance by Samantha Figgins from Alvin Ailey

Support BLR@20

Gala Sustainers ($15,000)

Barrett Kashdan

Gala Benefactors ($10,000)

Abraham Verghese
Jan and Marica Vilcek

Gala Patrons ($5000)

Bettina & Michael Klein
Northwell Health
Robert Warshaw

Gala Muses ($2500)

David & Jacqueline Weill
Marit Vagstad
OET (Occupational English Test)
Penguin Random House
Robert Oldshue & Anne Calabrese

Gala Advocates ($500)

Anyika Jordan
Barron Lerner
Bruce H Campbell
Eliza & Doug Chin
Frank Clark
Gardner McFall
Gerard A. Kirwan
Jennifer Nevins
Jerome Lowenstein
Katherine Mathews
Kathleen Gibbons
Marilyn Abildskov
Marion Nestle
Ruth Oratz
Saul Weiner
Thomas Andrews

Support BLR@20

BLR@20

BLR is 20. Come watch our 20th Anniversary celebration!

Featuring:

Jill LePore, New Yorker writer, author of “These Truths”

Abraham Verghese, MD, author of “Cutting for Stone”

Leslie Jamison, essayist, BLR Prize Winner, and author of “The Empathy Exams”

Michele Harper, MD, author of “The Beauty in Breaking”

Edward Hirsch, poet, President of the Guggenheim Foundation

Honoring Lisa Sanders, MD, author of “Every Patient Tells a Story,” creator of NY Times “Diagnosis” column, and consultant for “House, M.D.”

plus readings by Shanda McManus and Saleem Hue Penny

and dance performance by Samantha Figgins from Alvin Ailey

Gala Sustainers ($15,000)

Gala Benefactors ($10,000)

Gala Patrons ($5000)

Gala Muses ($2500)

Gala Partners ($1000+)

Gala Advocates ($500)

Gala Friends (up to $250)

“No human thing is more universal than illness, in all its permutations, and no literary publication holds more credibility on the subject than BLR.”

– NewPages.com

BLR@20

BLR is 20. Come watch our 20th Anniversary celebration!

Featuring:

Jill LePore, New Yorker writer, author of “These Truths”

Abraham Verghese, MD, author of “Cutting for Stone”

Leslie Jamison, essayist, BLR Prize Winner, and author of “The Empathy Exams”

Michele Harper, MD, author of “The Beauty in Breaking”

Edward Hirsch, poet, President of the Guggenheim FoundationHonoring Lisa Sanders, MD, author of “Every Patient Tells a Story,” creator of NY Times “Diagnosis” column, and consultant for “House, M.D.”

plus readings by Shanda McManus and Saleem Hue Penny

and dance performance by Samantha Figgins from Alvin Ailey

Gala Sustainers ($15,000)

Gala Benefactors ($10,000)

Gala Patrons ($5000)

Gala Muses ($2500)

Gala Partners ($1000+)

Gala Advocates ($500)

Gala Friends (up to $250)

“No human thing is more universal than illness, in all its permutations, and no literary publication holds more credibility on the subject than BLR.”

– NewPages.com

Edward Hirsch, poet, President of the Guggenheim Foundation

Honoring Lisa Sanders, MD, author of “Every Patient Tells a Story,” creator of NY Times “Diagnosis” column, and consultant for “House, M.D.”