PEN World Voices: Recap
The fifth annual PEN World Voices Festival ended on Sunday, and based on the attendance at the few events I went to, it was pretty successful. I wasn’t able to attend as many panels as I would’ve liked, which is sort of a plus and minus for the festival—there’s a lot to choose from and you really do ...
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Faith & Fiction
Where: powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY With Nadeem Aslam, Brian Evenson, Jan Kjærstad, and Rick Moody; moderated by Albert Mobilio Religion and religious faith are increasingly making their presence felt throughout the world in both politics and culture. Our panel will discuss some of the questions this ...
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Death in Spring and The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda
Where: Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY Mercè Rodoreda is the major Catalan novelist of the 20th century, and Death in Spring is one of her most complex and beautifully constructed works written in stunningly poetic prose over a period of twenty years in exile following the Spanish Civil War. Her ...
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Where Truth Lies: A Conversation on the Art of Fiction
Where: FIAF, Tinker Auditorium, 55 East 59th Street, New York, NY Participants: Marlon James, Jan Kjærstad, Horacio Castellanos Moya, and Roxana Robinson; moderated by Noreen Tomassi This conversation between writers dealing with challenging subject matter explores the human need to tell stories, why fiction seems to be ...
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Your Morning News Show Pales in Comparison to Ours
News This Morning on 13WHAM Rochester has, yet again, proven itself to be the news leader when it comes to local morning news shows that feature literature and international authors. If this seems familiar, that’s because it is. This time, Chad went on with Mark Binelli (Author of Sacco & Vanzetti Must Die!, ...
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TONIGHT – On the Edge: Writing in Post-Reunified Germany
In last last-minute switcheroo (sp?), Chad will be moderating-and-more at a PEN World Voices Festival event tonight in NYC. Title: On the Edge – Writing in Post-Reunified Germany When: Friday, May 1, 6–7:30 p.m. Where: Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews You can get the full info here, but what that page ...
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Reading the World Conversation Series: Jan Kjaerstad with Mark Binelli
When: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Where: Rush Rhees Library Welles-Brown Room, Rochester, NY Come see one of Europe’s foremost and most popular novelists, Jan Kjaerstad—author of The Conqueror and The Discoverer, winner of the Nordic Prize for Literature in 2001—in a conversation with the ...
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