Festival Neue Literatur: Up, Up and Away
Where: Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022 Free and open to the public Authors: Joseph O’Neill, MarÃa Cecilia Barbetta, Perikles Monioudis In conversation with Daniela Strigl and Klaus Nüchtern For we can fly we can fly Up, up and away My beautiful, my beautiful balloon Jimmy Webb: ...
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Festival Neue Literatur: A House is Not a Home
Where: Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022 Free and open to the public Authors: Rivka Galchen, Olga Flor, Julya Rabinowich In conversation with Daniela Strigl and Klaus Nüchtern A room is still a room Even when there’s nothing there but gloom; But a room is not a house, And a ...
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Silje Bekeng on the Modern Norwegian Novel
Norwegians are said to be born with skis on their feet—ready from birth for a life in harmony with the inhospitable Nordic nature. Maybe my mother was lacking some important vitamin during the pregnancy. No skis accompanied me into this world. Instead of seeking the woods and mountains like a true ...
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Reading the World Podcast #2: Susan Harris
Well, it’s the beginning of the month and time for another Reading the World Podcast. Erica Mena and I co-host this monthly podcast, which features interviews with authors, translators, scholars, publishers, and other international literature enthusiasts. All of the episodes we’ve taped are pretty awesome—a ...
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Interview with Margaret Schwartz
Following on last week’s serialization of Margaret Schwartz’s introduction to Macedonio Fernandez’s The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel), here’s an interview that she did with Meredith Keller, one of our current interns. Meredith Keller: I know you spent your Fulbright year ...
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Festival Neue Literatur: Should I Stay or Should I Go: Readings
Where: Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St. (Bowery/2nd Ave.), New York, NY 10003 Free and open to the public Readings in English and German with all Festival Neue Literatur authors: Maria Cecilia Barbetta, Martin Becker, Lorenz Langenegger, Olga Flor, Julya Rabinowich, Perikles Monioudis, Rivka Galchen, ...
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Festival Neue Literatur: Small Town Discussion
Where: Deutsches Haus NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY Free and open to the public Authors: Martin Becker, Lorenz Langenegger, John Wray In conversation with Daniela Strigl and Klaus Nüchtern I hate being odd in a small town If they stare let them stare in New York City At this pink eyed painting albino How ...
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