Oulipians Have More Fun [Life A User's Manual: Part 3]
Back when the Life A User’s Manual Big Read first started,1 I referenced this huge chart of constraints that served as Perec’s guide in constructing this novel.2 At the time, the only constraint I mentioned was the “Knight’s Move,” which determines the chapter order of the novel. But as you can ...
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Ernesto Cardenal Reading Tour
Where: Michigan State University, Lansing, MI in RCAH Theatre, Snyder Hall The tour coincides with the release of Cardenal’s latest work The Origin of Species and Other Poems. The acclaimed poet will be reading from his new collection at this presentation. Please contact Elvira Sanchez Blake with questions. (p) ...
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Outspoken Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Kind of in conjunction with the release of Daniel Stein, Interpreter, the Guardian has a longish piece on Ulitskaya that focuses on her more dissident side, especially in relation to Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Articles, Dialogues, Interviews, a collection of her letters with jailed billionaire Khodorkovsky: [Ulitskaya] was ...
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We, the Drowned
We who are alive in the age of the eBook may not be used to reading 675 page sea adventure tales. When we think of such novels—at least here on these shores—we probably think of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, venerable writers who penned some of the most enduring American classics of the genre. Though Denmark ...
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Ernesto Cardenal Reading Tour
Where: Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio The tour coincides with the release of Cardenal’s latest work The Origin of Species and Other Poems. The acclaimed poet will be reading from his new collection at this presentation. Please contact Irene Hodgson with questions. (p) 513-745-3541 (e) ...
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Cons and Quests; Things and Violence [Life A User's Manual: Part 2]
A few weeks back, I posted about the first section of Life A User’s Manual (TRANSLATED BY DAVID BELLOS), which is the Spring Big Read over at Scott Esposito’s Conversational Reading blog. As mentioned, I love Life, haven’t read it in years, and had every intention of keeping up with this reading group and ...
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Jeffrey Angles
Where: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625, Boston University Angles presents Translating Queers/Queer Translating. Part of Boston University’s Lecture Series in Literary Translation. All lectures are free and open to the public. A discussion will follow the presentation. For further information, please ...
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