First the New Yorker Festival at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Now the Penultimate at Southpaw.

PEN is proud to announce the launch of PENultimate Lit, a new literary series that will explore the intersection of literature and the arts in the modern world. Curated with the help of Rick Moody, PENultimate Lit will bring together notable writers and artists in an attempt to discern what, in 21st Century, makes writing matter.

The first event sounds great: an evening on film and literature with the the film/lit family extraordinaire, the Baumbachs.

An Evening on Film and Literature
Hosted by Amanda Stern , author of the novel The Long Haul

Featuring:
Author Jonathan Baumbach, Author of of
On the Way to My Father’s Funeral

Noah Baumbach, Writer/Director of films including Margot at the Wedding and
The Squid and the Whale

Sunday, November 11, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Southpaw, 125 Fifth Ave. Park Slope, Brooklyn
Subway: B/Q to 7th Ave , or 2, 3, 4, 5, D, B, N, R, Q, W at Pacific/Atlantic Avenues

Tickets are $10 – Doors open at 6:15 p.m