BLR@20 Gala
BLR has turned 20!
Watch our 20th Anniversary Celebration here.
Featuring:
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Jill LePore, New Yorker writer, author of “These Truths”
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Abraham Verghese, MD, author of “Cutting for Stone”
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Leslie Jamison, essayist, BLR Prize Winner, and author of “The Empathy Exams”
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Michele Harper, MD, author of “The Beauty in Breaking”
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Edward Hirsch, poet, President of the Guggenheim Foundation
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plus readings by Shanda McManus and Saleem Hue Penny
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and dance performance by Samantha Figgins from Alvin Ailey
Honoring Lisa Sanders, MD, author of “Every Patient Tells a Story,” creator of NY Times “Diagnosis” column, and consultant for “House, M.D.”
View the BLR Gala Program Booklet