Julia Alvarez Reads Judy Page Heitzman

Julia Alvarez joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill (newyorker.com/magazine/1991/12/02/the-schoolro…),” by Judy Page Heitzman, and her own poem “Mami at Her Vanity (newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/mami-at-her-…).” Alvarez is the author of many novels, nonfiction books, children’s books, and poetry collections, including, most recently, “Visitations (amazon.com/dp/0593805038).” She has received a Hispanic Heritage Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature, and a National Medal of Arts. She’s also the subject of a PBS “American Masters” documentary.

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