Think and Drink Happy Hour
Where: Goethe-Institut New York, 72 Spring Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY Come meet the participants of the Festival Neue Literatur 2011, and enjoy wine and refreshments provided by the cultural partners. This opening reception kicks off the Festival that features six young German, Austrian and Swiss writers along with ...
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Herve Le Tellier & PEN World Voices [Sensible Pricing]
I’ll post about this again as the time grows closer, but I wanted to announce that on Monday, May 2nd, Herve Le Tellier, Amelie Nothomb, and Carsten Jensen will be here in Rochester for our annual PEN World Voices event. For this year’s event, we’ve partnered with the admirable Writers & Books who will ...
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If You Want Your Bolano Fix . . .
As announced on their site the next issue of The Paris Review includes the first part of The Third Reich, Roberto Bolano’s “lost” novel (due out next year), which will be serialized over all four 2011 issues. Spring is almost here1—and so is our spring issue! It’s an especially exciting one: We ...
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I'm All in in a Very Big Way
One of my all-time favorite books is Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, and for months years, I’ve been meaning to reread it. Well, starting sometime soon, Conversational Reading will be hosting a Big Read of Perec’s classic novel. No real info up there yet, but as soon as the schedule is ...
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An Interview I Love
I have to thank GoodReads reviewer extraordinaire/B&N Union Square employee (who makes the best book displays ever) Karen Brissette for pointing me to this interview. She was searching for information on Iren Nigg (who is apparently awesome and totally not translated1) and came across this Stefan Sprenger interview that ...
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engulf — enkindle
engulf — enkindle is a stunning book of poetry. It literally stunned me into absolute submission; it is the book of poetry I’d been wanting to read for years. It’s a small volume, and I read it in one sitting, faster than I normally read poetry, because I couldn’t slow down. The language sunk its hooks into me and ...
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mTm Journal, call for papers
Call for papers: MTM. Minor Translating Major – Major Translating Minor – Minor Translating Minor Call Deadline: 31-May-2011 mTm Journal is a new international refereed journal with an Editorial Board comprised of leading scholars in the field of translation studies. mTm aims at starting and promoting a ...
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