Thomas Pletzinger & Ross Benjamin
Where: Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library, °µÍřłÔąĎ, Rochester, NY One of Germany’s hottest young author’s, Thomas Pletzinger has received great praise for his novelistic debut, Funeral for a Dog, which is now available in Ross Benjamin’s English translation. The two of them will discuss this book, ...
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Ernesto Cardenal Reading Tour
Where: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO at the Old Main Chapel The tour coincides with the release of Cardenal’s latest work The Origin of Species and Other Poems. Father Cardenal will read from his memoirs, with a discussion and reception to follow. Please contact Anne Helen Becher with any questions. (p) ...
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PEN: Writing in a Majority/Minority Cultural Context: Local Identity vs. a Broader Nation
Where: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., New York City Pulled between calls for regional autonomy versus demands for a stronger federation, regions of the world such as Catalonia, Georgia and Québec tackle questions of cultural identity every day. Join writers from these “minority/majority nations” as they discuss how ...
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PEN: Authors and Audiences
Where: Cultural Services of the French Embassy, 972 5th Ave., New York City A writer spends considerable time envisaging his or her readers. But as a manuscript makes its way across the editorial labyrinth—through the hands of editors, agents, publishers and booksellers—the imagined readers become elusive. Editor and ...
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PEN: Lunchtime Literary Conversations
Where: La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews, New York City Take a respite from the day’s activity with the second event of our lunchtime conversations and enjoy a tête-à -tête between two bestselling French authors: Laurence Cossé, the author of The Corner of the Veil, Prime Minister’s Woman, and most recently, ...
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PEN: Everything and More: The Pale King
Where: St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral Gymnasium, 268 Mulberry St., New York City In this magnificent book left unfinished at his death, David Foster Wallace anatomizes contemporary American sadness and boredom by investigating its Internal Revenue System. The result: a hilarious, truthful, and embittered vision of late-model ...
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PEN: A Global Piano and Literary Salon: From Russia with Love
Where: The Jerome L. Greene Space at WNYC, 44 Charlton St., New York City In an intimate gathering at WYNYC’s beloved Jerome L. Greene Space, participants have a rare opportunity to hear Igor Belov and Ksenia Shcherbino, two of Russia’s young, rising literary talents read from their latest works. Sip a glass of wine, ...
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