Festival Neue Literatur
Where: Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn The Future of the Novel with Peter Weber, Andrea Winkler, Andrea Grill, Rivka Galchen, and Paul North. These authors have determined new possibilities for the structure, form, and effects of novel writing. A capitalist aesthetic, prose’s new musical potentials, and the ...
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The Fat of My Heart: Expressions of Love & Desire in Tibetan Literature
Where: Trace Foundation’s Latse Library, 132 Perry Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014 Celebrate the month of love at The Fat of My Heart at Trace Foundation’s Latse Library. Join us Friday, February 11th for an exploration of expressions of love and desire in Tibetan literature, historical documents, and ...
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Shahryar Mandanipour with Sara Khalili
Where: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625, Boston University Mandanipour and Khalili present Stripping the Ironclad Word. 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, ...
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Festival Neue Literatur
Where: Yale University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 309 Reading and Discussion at Yale: Afternoon Workshops in German (1:00 PM – 5:15 PM) will focus on technical aspects of each author’s style and concerns. A reading and roundtable in English (5:30 PM – ...
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In the Age of Screens (Part I)
So, following up the last post about the Non-fiction Conference . . . When I was invited to talk at this, I decided that I really wanted to write something new, something that I haven’t exactly written about, or talked about before. (It’s way easier just going back to the tried-and-true, but that does start to ...
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In the Age of Screens (A Prelude)
As I mentioned some time ago, I was invited to participate in this year’s Non-Fiction Conference sponsored and organized by the Dutch Foundation for Literature. This year’s focus was on “Quality Non-Fiction in the Digital Era,” so there were a number of presentations about new developments, the future ...
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Tolstoy Centennial
Where: Pacific Standard Bar, 82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets) Please join us for a special Chin Music Tolstoy Centennial celebration featuring bilingual readings of poetry and a staged reading in Russian from Tolstoy’s How Much Land Does A Man Need, the inaugural title from Calypso ...
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