Eat Your Words: When Writers Speak of Food 2
Where: Posman Books, Chelsea Market, 75 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY Author Agnès Desarthe (Chez Moi, Penguin) in conversation with Mary Ann ...
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The Future of Latin American Fiction (Part III)
To celebrate the recent release of Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash, all this week we’re going to serialize a speech that Jorge gave this past summer on the Future of Latin American Fiction. And, as a special offer, for the next 20 people who subscribe to Open Letter—either a 5 book or 10 book ...
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ALTA 2009 Conference
Continental Drift The 2009 ALTA Conference Committee invites you to join us in Pasadena for a celebration of the confluence of cultures and languages that characterizes Southern California. Greater Los Angeles is a place where continents truly do collide, even when our infamous seismic activity is at a lull! And who ...
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The Wall in My Head Reading and Q&A
Where: Idlewild Books, 12 W 19th Street, New York, NY Words without Borders will host a short reading followed by a discussion and Q&A, featuring a group of writers from its new anthology The Wall in My Head and from its November issue on German writing from the years after 1989. The readers will include Dorota ...
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Video: Reading the World w/ International Writers and Translators from Ledig House
Last Thursday, we held our final Reading the World Conversation Series event of the fall, featuring a group of four international writers and translators in residence at Ledig House — an international writers residency in New York that specializes in hosting authors and translators from around the world. Now, the ...
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LIT&LUNCH: Re-translating a Masterpiece: Breon Mitchell on Günter Grass
Where: 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St, San Francisco, CA Bring a lunch and join the Center for this LIT&LUNCH event! 2009 sees the publication of one of the most important re-translations in decades: Breon Mitchell’s re-translation of The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, only the second time this novel has been translated ...
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From Bande Dessinée to Graphic Novel: Drawing Two Traditions Together
Where: La Maison Française of NYU, 16 Washington Mews, at the corner of University Place, New York, NY Panel participants will include Sylvain Coissard, Copyright Consultant, Sylvain Coissard Agency Dan Frank, Editorial Director, Pantheon Books Thierry Groensteen, Publisher, Critic, Comics Historian Mark Siegel, ...
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