Georges Simenon Discussion
Where: London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London, UK John Banville and John Gray discuss the work of Georges
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Collapsing Borders: Reading Global Culture Through Literary Translation
Where: City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA Presented by the National Book Critics Circle, LitQuake, and City Lights Books Moderated by Oscar Villalon, former San Francisco Chronicle book editor and Publisher, McSweeney’s, with NBCC board member Jennifer Reese; Scott Esposito, editor of The Quarterly ...
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Blogging from Frankfurt
Chad may be at the Frankfurt Book Fair all week—making it quieter over here—but you can still read all about it on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. Chad and a handful of others are all ...
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The Discoverer by Jan Kjaerstad (Part II of V)
The Frankfurt Book Fair is going all week, so rather than vanish for a few days, all this week we’re serializing the opening of Jan Kjaerstad’s _The Discoverer, translated from the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland. This is the follow-up to The Conqueror (although each book in the Wergeland Trilogy can be read ...
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The Discoverer by Jan Kjaerstad (Part I of V)
The Frankfurt Book Fair starts tomorrow, and in a few short hours I’ll be on a plane to Germany. (Hastily preparing for a Tools of Change panel I’m going to be on a mere six hours after I land . . .) Anyway, I will be blogging for the FBF site, and hope to update Three Percent with that info, but in the meantime, ...
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Babel Series: A.S. Byatt
Where: Buffalo, NY Click here for more
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"Inventing the Jew" by Andrei Oisteanu
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute, The Gallery, 200 East 38th Street, New York, NY On the day of Commemoration of the Victims of Holocaust in Romania, RCINY organizes the launch and a roundtable around Andrei Oisteanu’s celebrated book “Inventing the Jew. Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other ...
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