Which Is More True?: Students Have No Time to Read, or Students Have Crappy Taste
From The California Aggie, UC Davis’s student newspaper: Parsa is not alone. Though reading textbooks and articles is high on many UC Davis students’ to-do lists, reading books purely for pleasure? Not so much. A 2007 study conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts found that in 2005, 65 percent ...
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Book of Happenstance Giveaway
Just an FYI: We’re giving away 10 copies of Book of Happenstance via GoodReads. If you’re interested in getting in on the action, just follow the directions below. .goodreadsGiveawayWidget { color: #555; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; font-size: 14px; ...
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Europa Editions Celebrates 100
Where: Lolita Bar, 266 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002 Please join us for a night of literary trivia to celebrate the launch of Alina Bronsky’s The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine. Europa Editor-in-Chief Michael Reynolds and translator Tim Mohr will be hosting the event. Prizes and giveaways galore! Including ...
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Day of the Oprichnik
Set in a futuristic Moscow (2028 according to the jacket copy), Day of the Oprichnik is exactly that: a day in the life of Andrei Danilovich Komiaga. The oprichniki were essentially a cultish “death squad” that was set up by Tsar Ivan the Terrible back in the mid 1500s to protect his ass and slay his enemies, and ...
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Vladimir Sorokin's Coming Out Party
As mentioned on last week’s podcast, and further elaborated on in this week’s one (BTW, you can subscribe to the Three Percent podcast at iTunes), Vladimir Sorokin was one of the authors I was most interested in seeing at the PEN World Voices Festival. Way back when, I read his short, early novel The Queue in a ...
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Seeing Stories: Fiction, Manga, and Graphic Novels
Where: Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Manhattan American and Japanese artists have been inspiring each other for decades. Tonight, authors Hideo Furukawa and Steve Erickson share their strong apocalyptic imaginations, and Roland Kelts, half-Japanese author of Japanamerica, will discuss the mutual influences in ...
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PEN Tour: Philadelphia
Where: Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St. Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Daniel Orozco and Leila Aboulela, participating authors of the PEN World Voices Festival, join Penn Bookstore for a discussion of their respective books, Montecore, Orientation: And Other Stories and Lyrics ...
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