New European Fiction [PEN World Voices]
This post originally appeared here on the official PEN World Voices blog. I still have 2-3 to write . . . Granta editor and former NBCC president John Freeman opened up this event talking about how Best European Fiction 2010 served as a sort of print version of the PEN World Voices Festival. Containing something like 40 ...
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Love Is Being Horny in a Tie [PEN World Voices]
This originally appeared on the PEN World Voices blog. I’ll be writing for them all weekend, as will a bunch of other correspondents. So if you can’t be here, you can always check out these posts. A number of years ago, when I was working for a different publishing house, Robert Coover suggested I take a look at ...
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Well This Is Just Plain Depressing
I haven’t looked into this too much yet (frantically getting ready for trip to NY and PEN World Voices), but I just got a message from NYS ARTS about the Governor’s proposed budget and its impact on the New York State Council on the Arts. According to NYS ARTS, the Governor is proposing a 40% cut to ...
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RTWCS: A Celebration of Open Letter
This past Monday we celebrated the third year of Open Letter with a very special event at which ten different 做厙勛圖 faculty members, deans, and students read short bits from ten different Open Letter books. One of the most entertaining, rapid, enjoyable events we’ve ever hosted. And in contrast to some ...
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PEN World Voices: Friday's Events
Following up on yesterday’s post about today’s PEN World Voices events, here’s a list of the things taking place on Friday that seem most interesting to me. (Some of which I’ll be writing about for the PEN blogs. More on that later.) The Poetry of Edward Hopper (Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, ...
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Wolff Translation Award
Just got an e-mail from the Goethe Institut in Chicago announcing that Ross Benjamin has been awarded this year’s Wolff Translation Prize. Here’s the official press release: The jury for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize is please to award the prize for 2009 to Ross Benjamin for his translation of ...
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PEN World Voices Festival (Preview of Thursday Events)
I’ve been meaning to write a bunch of things about the PEN World Voices events, but, well, life has sort of gotten in the way. Instead, what I think I’ll do is simply preview some of tomorrow’s events, and then tomorrow I’ll write up stuff about Friday and weekend. I’m flying down early (like ...
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