PEN Tour: Iowa City
Where: The Congregational Church, 30 N. Clinton St. A reading with David Bezmozgis, Hervé Le Tellier, and Kyung-Sook Shin. Co-sponsored by Prairie Lights Bookstore & UNESCO City of ...
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Tough Nuts to Crack: Challenges in Czech to English Literary Translation
Where: Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 Street, New York, NY A unique opportunity to meet with the renowned translators – Peter Kussi (Milan Kundera, Jiří Gruša, Bohumil Hrabal), Paul Wilson (Václav Havel, Ivan Klima, Josef Škvorecký), Alex Zucker (Jáchym Topol, Petra Hůlová, Patrik Ouředník), and Robert ...
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PEN Tour: Iowa City
Where: Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Meeting Room A A panel discussion with David Bezmozgis, Hervé Le Tellier, and Kyung-Sook Shin, as well as IU faculty. This event is open to the public. Contact: Jeanette Pilak, jeanette@cityofliteratureusa.org Co-sponsored by Prairie Lights Bookstore & UNESCO ...
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PEN World Voices in Rochester [Events!]
In case we haven’t mentioned this before, tonight we’re co-hosting a special event with Writers & Books and PEN World Voices featuring three international authors: Najat El Hachmi, Marcelo Figueras, and Carsten Jensen. All the info can be found here, but in short, this event starts at 7pm at Writers & ...
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Eating Enough to Keep Drinking [PEN Receptions]
Totally stealing this title from Geoff Dyer via Joshua Furst, so thanks to both of you . . . But it really is the perfect description for what the first couple days of the PEN World Voices Festival was for me. My PEN experience started at 5:30am, when I picked up Thomas Pletzinger and Ross Benjamin from their hotel in ...
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Monkey Business
Where: BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY Come help us launch the first annual English language edition of Monkey Business, New Writing From Japan. The launch party will be an evening of readings and celebrations with Monkey Business editors and contributors, including Motoyuki Shibata, Hiromi Kawakami, Hideo ...
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PEN: The Sixth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Wole Soyinka
Where: New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, 5th Ave. at 42nd St., New York City Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nigerian poet-dramatist, Wole Soyinka, writes: “Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.” Join him for a thoughtful examination of censorship—and ...
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