Laurence Cossé
Where: The Community Bookstore in Park Slope, 143 7th Avenue, New York City Please join Europa Editions, World Literature Today & The Community Bookstore for an evening with French novelist Laurence Cossé. Cossé will read from A Novel Bookstore, discuss her forthcoming novel An Accident in August and speak with World ...
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PEN: Translation Slam
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St., New York City Back for the fourth year running, the Translation Slam puts different translations of the same text side by side and invites the translators, poets, and audience members to join in a lively critical debate of how each version meets its creative challenges. Borrowed ...
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PEN: Brainwave, The Dreamers
Where: Rubin Museum of Art, K2 Lounge, 150 West 17th St., New York City Ever wonder about the stuff of poets’ dreams? Don’t miss the last day of the Rubin Museum’s Brainwaves Series at an unprecedented event, where distinguished bards linger in gallery spaces throughout the Museum, sharing their dreams. In an intimate ...
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PEN: Cocktail Hour Reading
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St., New York City Wind your week down with a reading by a stellar line-up of Festival authors. With David Bezmozgis, Rahul Bhattacharya, Tomas Espedal, Pierre Guyotat, Shin Kyung- Sook, and Irvine Welsh Tickets: $10/$5 PEN Members, students with valid ID. Call (866) 811-4111 or ...
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PEN: Catalan Literature’s Modern Tradition
Where: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., New York City One of the world’s most beautiful romance languages, Catalan, has a rich literary trove, unknown to most of the English-speaking world. A discussion of seminal 20th-century works, such as Llorenc Villalonga’s The Doll’s Room and Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook, led ...
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PEN: The REAL Literacies that Young Adults Need
Where: Instituto Cervantes, 211 East 49th St., New York City Does literacy just extend to the world of letters? Aren’t real-life literacies like those involving interpersonal skills, financial smarts, cultural sensitivity and media savvy just as important? Those adept at easing between multiple literacies fair best at ...
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2011 Princeton Poetry Festival
Where: Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey A hearty welcome to the second biennial Princeton Poetry Festival. Poetry has been a feature of life at this university for almost as long as the university has had life. Philip Freneau was a member of the class of 1771, while Aaron Burr of ...
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