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Three Percent #2: So, about that revolution . . .
As you may have noticed, last week, we launched a new Three Percent podcast featuring myself and Tom Roberge of New Directions. Our goal with this is to talk every week about books, events, some industry stuff, and so on. Hopefully these will be around 20 minutes long (we both talk a lot) and will provide a nice preview of ...
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Seeing Stories: Fiction, Manga, and Graphic Novels
Where: Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Manhattan American and Japanese artists have been inspiring each other for decades. Tonight, authors Hideo Furukawa and Steve Erickson share their strong apocalyptic imaginations, and Roland Kelts, half-Japanese author of Japanamerica, will discuss the mutual influences in ...
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PEN Tour: Philadelphia
Where: Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St. Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Daniel Orozco and Leila Aboulela, participating authors of the PEN World Voices Festival, join Penn Bookstore for a discussion of their respective books, Montecore, Orientation: And Other Stories and Lyrics ...
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Sex in a Trunk
I think it might have been because Kim Young-ha is such an earnest entertainer. Or maybe because Bruce Fulton was such an even-spoken and perceptive moderator. Or maybe the fact that the stories in Susan Choi’s books surprised me with their violence and destruction. But for whatever reason, out of all the events ...
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PEN Tour: Portland
Where: Powell’s Bookstore, 3723 SE Hawthorne Powell’s joins PEN World Voices in celebrating international literature. Officially censored upon its Chinese publication and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, Dream of Ding Village (Grove) is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke’s most important ...
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PEN Tour: Washington DC
Where: The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815 Hosted by Lisa Page, President of the Pen Faulkner Board of Directors, writers from Sudan (Leila Aboulela), the United States (Daniel Orozco), and Sweden (Jonas Hassen Khemiri) stop by for what will be a memorable evening of world literature. For more ...
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PEN Tour: Rochester
Where: Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, NY Open Letter Books and Writers & Books are joining together to bring three up-and-coming international authors to Rochester: Carsten Jensen, Najat El Hachmi, and Marcelo Figueras. Carsten Jensen (Denmark) is the author of We, The Drowned a seafaring novel ...
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