Celebrating 40 Years of Great Writing – Confrontation Anniversary April 27

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, one of Confrontation’s extraordinary writers.

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 celebration and reading on Sunday, April 27, 2008 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. takes place at the Brooklyn Campus, which is located near Flatbush and DeKalb avenues in Downtown Brooklyn. The event is free and open to the public. 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: April 3, 2008