Alejandro Zambra's mini-tour
Alejandro Zambra is in New York this week, supporting the sort-of-forthcoming-sort-of-just-published The Private Lives of Trees. On Monday, he was at the lovely Greenlight Books in Fort Greene, Brooklyn on a panel that Dennis Johnson put together to celebrate Melville House’s The Art of the Novella Series. Here he his ...
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Alejandro Zambra with Megan McDowell
Where: 192 Books, 192 10th Avenue, New York, NY Alejandro Zambra and his translator Megan McDowell will discuss Zambra’s latest book to be translated into English, The Private Lives of Trees. Alejandro Zambra is acclaimed as the greatest writer of Chile’s younger generation. He is a poet and critic and currently ...
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Translating Vilnius: Laimonas Briedis and Elizabeth Novickas
Where: 57th Street Books, 1301 E 57th Street, Chicago, IL Laimonas Briedis will discuss VILNIUS, Briedis’s historical investigation of Lithuania’s capital, from legendary beginnings in the 14th century up to 2009, when Vilnius holds the distinction of being European Capital of Culture. Briedis is a native of ...
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Off to Bulgaria . . .
Taking off in just a few minutes for Bulgaria to participate in the translation related part of this year’s Sozopol Fiction Workshop, which is sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing. This seminar brings together English and Bulgarian writers for three days of workshops, guest lectures, and ...
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Greenlight celebrates Melville House’s Art of the Novella Series
Where: Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY Introduction by publisher Dennis Johnson Featuring Lore Segal, author of Lucinella Alejandro Zambra, author of Bonsai Margarita Shalina, translator of Chekov’s The Duel Ian Dreiblatt, translator of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych Brooklyn-based ...
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The Misadventures of the New Satan
A. H. Tammsaare was the pseudonym of Anton Hansen, considered by many to be Estonia’s greatest writer. Born in 1878 (on a farm called Tammsaare, or “Oak Island”), Hansen did not graduate from secondary school until age 25, because his family’s sporadic income necessitated long hiatuses in his education. However, he ...
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A Final Post about Lost
So the other week when I joked about how Lexiophiles referred to Three Percent as containing “random, unrelated informational debris”? Well, this post sort of proves their point . . . At 2:30am this morning, I finished what I think will be the last real piece that I’ll ever write about Lost. (Not counting ...
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