A panel with Shelley Jackson (artist and author, Half Life), Nathaniel Rich (author, The Mayor’s Tongue, senior editor, The Paris Review) Heidi Julavits (novelist and co-editor of The Believer) and Mark Greif (critic, co-editor and co-founder of N+1). Moderated by Justin Taylor (writer and editor of The Apocalypse Reader and McSweeney‘s).

This panel will examine the criteria used to place works of literature into categories like lyric, minimal, narrative, high brow, low brow, etc. It will examine past schools and movements in literature and parse out the impulse we have to categorize and draw lines between types of stories. Presented by Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art.