Husband-and-wife duo Matt Berninger (lead singer of the National) and poet and editor Carin Besser (formerly of The New Yorker) discuss their long-standing musical collaboration and the challenges and delights of co-creation. Hosted by award-winning playwright and Yale professor Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Location
Humanities Quadrangle, Room 134
320 York St.
About the Speakers
Matt Berninger is the vocalist and lyricist for Grammy Award-winning band the National. The band’s career spans ten studio albums. His new solo album, Get Sunk, is out on May 30.
Carin Besser spent a decade at The New Yorker, where she worked as a fiction editor. Since 2007, she has co-written lyrics with her husband, Matt Berninger, for the band the National. She continues to work with poems and prose as an editor and writer.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright whose plays include Girls, Everybody, Appropriate, An Octoroon, and Neighbors. His work has won Tony and Obie Awards, and he is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches theater and performance studies at Yale University.
The Yale Review Festival is co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the 320 York Fund, Yale English Department and Creative Writing, and the Whitney Humanities Center.
