TODAY: Reading the World Conversation Series w/ Jan Kjærstad & Mark Binelli
To all of you in the Rochester area, be sure to come to the University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel today at 6 p.m. for the newest installment of our ongoing Reading the World Conversation Series. This time we’re proud to bring to town Jan Kjærstad (an internationally renown author from Norway) and Mark Binelli (an ...
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What Makes a Good Panel?
This was the question that Leon Neyfakh from the New York Observer asked a few people at the recent PEN Foundation annual gala. The answers aren’t all that provocative or surprising: Edmund White points out how most panels are “an exercise of competing egos rather than an effort to communicate or focus on the ...
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Hermano Cerdo: Issue 23
As mentioned on Conversational Reading, the new issue of Hermano Cerdo is now available. Included in this issue are articles on Juan Jose Millas’s El Mundo, on Sergio Chejfec’s Los incompletos y Mis dos mundos, and on Daniel Sada’s Casi nunca, which will be published by Graywolf. ...
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Audio Interview with Chad Post for Nigel Beale's Podcast
Chad Post (who you may know as the guy who wrote all the words above and below this post) was recently interviewed by Nigel Beale for his literary podcast. It’s a candid 28 minutes—covering the state of literature in translation, the American publishing landscape, Open Letter, and etc.—so take a ...
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Black Beach and Other Plays: Catalan Drama
With Catalan Days quickly approaching (the festival kicks off on Saturday with the Merce Rodoreda/Jessica Lange event at the Baryshnikov Arts Center) this seems like an appropriate time to mention Black Beach and Other Plays a collection of three works of contemporary Catalan drama by Jordi Coca, Joan Casas, and Lluisa ...
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Jan Kjaerstad at 192 Books
Meet the Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad at 192 Books as he presents his latest novel, “The Conqueror”, with his American editor, E.J. Van Lanen. Jan Kjærstad is one of Scandinavia’s most prominent contemporary authors. He made his debut in 1980 with a collection of short stories titled, “The Earth Turns ...
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Women Translating Women
Where: Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, 17 E 47th St., New York, NY The Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University will host an event at the Merc on the art of translation. Participants will include Esther Allen on translating New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto and Mexican novelist Rosario Castellanos; ...
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