The Future of Latin American Fiction (Part II)
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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Crossing Borders: Translation of Place
Where: Prairie Lights Bookstore, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA Live from Prairie Lights event in Iowa City with Robin Hemley, Christopher Merrill, Cole Swenson, and Russell ...
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya with Keith Gessen
Where: McNally Jackson, 52 Prince St., New York, NY Petrushevskaya is a major figure in Russian literature, and her new American collection There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby (Viking) which has already been excerpted in The New Yorker and Harper’s, should bring her some more ...
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Eat Your Words: When Writers Speak of Food
Where: Instituto Cervantes, 211 E. 49th Street, New York, NY A conversation between authors Agnès Desarthe, Christoph Peters, Jesús Ruiz Mantilla and Clara Sereni, moderated by Mark Kurlansky. ...
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Why Translation Matters
Where: Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Iowa NBCC Reads and Prairie Lights welcome panel discussion on Why Translation Matters, with Moderator: Sarah Fay is an advisory editor at The Paris Review. Her work appears regularly in the New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Bookforum, and The American Scholar, among others. ...
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
Contemporary Japanese literature is all too easy to stereotype. As far as the American reading public goes, the only books that come out of Japan seem to be under one of three genres. The first is the “bizarre things happening in an otherwise normal setting” in the mold of Haruki Murakami. As one of the most successful ...
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The Future of Latin American Fiction (Part I)
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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