From the press release:

PHILIP GOUREVITCH WILL DISCUSS JOURNALISTS’ ROLE AS AGENTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE AT HUNTER COLLEGE DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES

Gourevitch, editor of the The Paris Review, former New Yorker political reporter and author to appear at Hunter College, Tuesday, February 28, at 7:00 PM.

NEW YORK – The Paris Review editor and author Philip Gourevitch will discuss his most recent book, Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance (co-authored with James Shinn), and the role of journalists as agents of social change, Tuesday, February 28, 7:00 PM, at the Hunter College’s Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, located on the fourth floor, Hunter North Building, entrance is on the 69th Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue. To reserve seats, please call the Hunter College Special Events Office at 212.772.4007 or email the office at spevents@hunter.cuny.edu.

The editor of The Paris Review, Gourevitch is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, where he covered the 2004 presidential campaign. He is the author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and A Cold Case. He is the recipient of National Book Critics’ Circle Awards, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and a Guardian First Book Award.

Gourevitch will be appearing as part of The 2006 Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series, presented by Hunter President Jennifer J. Raab and the MFA Program in Creative Writing, directed by Peter Carey, the MFA’s program’s director.

Also appearing in the series will be novelist authors Junot Diaz (March 13), Eva Hoffman (March 21) and Jonathan Franzen (April 4). The Series will conclude with a Poetry Blast on May 4, featuring Tom Sleigh, Sharon Olds, C.K. Williams, Robert Pinsky and others.