The Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer is one of the big names at this year’s Writers Festival.
Isolation, and especially self-isolation, is an integral part of being a professional writer.
There are intriguing sessions right across the four-day online agenda.
Amos Oz, who died in December, was to celebrate his 80th birthday at the opening event of the festival in May 2019. Instead, a tribute to Oz was held in his memory.
Joyce Carol Oates, who characterizes her upcoming appearance at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim Writers Festival as ‘a high point of my life as a writer – perhaps the high point’