The World on Our Bookshelves: The Import of Literature in Translation
Where: Pages & Places Festival, ArtWorks, 503 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, PA America is a prolific creator of writers. The world’s first degree-granting creative writing program came into being in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1937, and now some 400 such programs offer undergraduate and/or graduate degrees, each turning out a ...
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Granta's best of young Spanish novelists
Today Granta announced the twenty-two young Spanish Novelists that will be in the ‘Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists issue, which is coming in November. The list (which you can see in full below) has two exciting surprises for us. First, our own Alejandro Zambra was named to the list! The issue will feature an ...
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Bragi Ólafsson @ The Scandinavia House
Where: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (@ 38th Street), New York, NY Sturla Jón Jónsson, the fifty-something building superintendent and sometimes poet, has been invited to a poetry festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, appointed, as he sees it, as the official representative of the people of Iceland to the field of poetry. ...
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Paul Auster: Fiction and Translation
Where: Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, Թ Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, and the upcoming Sunset Park. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project Anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. ...
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A Novel Bookstore
“Who should we see at the police to denounce attacks against literature?” Such is the question that two bookstore owners—one an elegant heiress, the other a self-educated, solitary, bohemian bookseller—solemnly pose at the opening of French author Laurence Cossé’s satirical biblio-thriller, A Novel ...
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What Happens in Scranton . . .
Tomorrow kicks off a killer 11-day trip for me: first to NYC to pick up a rental car and three authors/transltors (Bragi Olafsson, Margaret Carson, and Sergio Chejfec) and drive them to Scranton, PA, then from there to Frankfurt, and then back in Rochester on October 11th . . . I’ll still be posting on occasion (mostly ...
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Bragi Olafsson's Upcoming Events & Giveaway
As you may already know, Bragi Olafsson’s new novel, The Ambassador, is releasing next month. It’s an awesome, hilarious, fun novel about an Icelandic poet who attends a poetry festival in Lithuania, where his coat is stolen, where he gets pretty wasted, and where he meets a bunch of eccentric poets (surprise?). ...
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