Babel Series: Azar Nafisi
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Preface to a Prologue of an Idea of a Thought (Part V)
While I’m tanning doing journalism at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, I thought it would be interesting to totally overload everyone on Macedonio Fernandez. Museum of Eterna’s Novel ranks right up there as one of the books that I’m most proud to be associated with. It’s unique, strange, ...
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Kenzaburo Oe at International House
Where: International House, 1414 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL Kenzaburō Ōe, recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, will return to the University of Chicago’s Center for East Asian Studies to deliver this year’s Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture. Ōe will speak in Japanese, with English translation provided ...
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Preface to a Prologue of an Idea of a Thought (Part IV)
While I’m tanning doing journalism at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, I thought it would be interesting to totally overload everyone on Macedonio Fernandez. Museum of Eterna’s Novel ranks right up there as one of the books that I’m most proud to be associated with. It’s unique, strange, ...
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Leaving the ADIBF for Dutch Cuisine and Odd Cab Rides
I actually managed to leave the ADIBF for a few hours today to attend a special lunch at the home of the Dutch Ambassador. I was mainly there to talk with Maarten Valken about next January’s “Non-Fiction Conference,” which will be focused on e-books. (More on this later, but in brief, this sounds like an ...
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Preface to a Prologue of an Idea of a Thought (Part III)
While I’m tanning doing journalism at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, I thought it would be interesting to totally overload everyone on Macedonio Fernandez. Museum of Eterna’s Novel ranks right up there as one of the books that I’m most proud to be associated with. It’s unique, strange, ...
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"Scenes" from the Arab Booker Announcement
The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair officially kicked off this morning with a slew of professional and cultural events, including a conversation with Azar Nafisi and the announcement of a new distribution company serving the Arab World. (More on that later. Much later.) Fair aside though, the big news of the evening was ...
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