Asymptote Journal
Announcing the launch of ASYMPTOTE, a new international literary journal dedicated to the art and practice of translation. Founded out of Singapore, with editors scattered across the globe, ASYMPTOTE offers a well-calibrated window on world literature, in all its forms. Issue Jan 2011 features original essays by ...
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Spaces of Memory from Berlin to New York: A Conversation with James Youn
Where: The Jewish Community Center, 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St., New York, NY The JCC is delighted to welcome Habitus (and Joshua Ellison, editor), as a partner and co-sponsor of these programs. Habitus is a magazine of international Jewish culture and a Jewish magazine about the world that speaks to anyone who feels the ...
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Joseph Roth's Job: The Story of a Simple Man
Where: Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 A reading from and discussion about the new translation of Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man Read by Ross Benjamin (translator) Moderated by Paul Flemming (Associate Professor of German at NYU; Department Chair) ...
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The 100th anniversary of Gallimard
Where: La Maison Française, NYU, 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 ANTOINE GALLIMARD in conversation with OLIVIER BARROT (in French). In 1988, Antoine Gallimard became the head of the Editions Gallimard, one of the world’s most prestigious publishing houses. He succeeded his father, Claude Gallimard who, himself, ...
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Vita Nuova
Vita Nuova is the second volume in a trilogy of autobiographical novels based on Bohumil Hrabal’s courtship of and marriage to Eliška Plevová (nicknamed Pipsi) and the first decade or so of his fame as one of Czechoslovakia’s most beloved writers. Originally published in samizdat in Prague in 1986, not long before ...
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NCBB Fiction Finalists
Over the weekend, the National Book Critics Circle announced the list of finalists for this year’s awards, which consist of six categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, and criticism. You can find the complete list of finalists at the link above, but I just want to list the fiction finalists, ...
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Non-Fiction Conference 2011 [Amsterdam!]
As mentioned in the previous post, I’m going to be gone basically all next week to participate in this year’s Non-Fiction Conference, which is taking place in Amsterdam and is put together by the Dutch Foundation for Literature. This is a pretty amazing opportunity—not just to see Amsterdam, but because ...
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