The Antiquarian
Gustavo Faverón Patriau’s The Antiquarian, translated by Joseph Mulligan, is a genre-blending novel, a complete immersion that delves into a lesser-used niche of genre: horror, gothic, the weird. There are visual horrors, psychological ones, and dark corners with threats lurking. When what hides in those corners is ...
>
RTWCS: Radical Politics and BFFs
Join us at the University of Rochester Tuesday, April 15th, at 6 P.M. in the Gowen Room (located in Wilson Commons) for a conversation and reading with Greek author Amanda Michalopoulou and translator Karen Emmerich as they read and discuss Amanda’s Why I Killed My Best Friend. “Flawlessly translated, Amanda ...
>
Elsewhere
What a wonderful, idiosyncratic book Weinberger has written. I say book, but the closest comparison I could make to other works being published right now are from Sylph Edition’s “Cahiers Series“—short pamphlet-like meditations by notable writers such as Ann Carson, Elfriede Jelinek, and László Krasznahorkai ...
>
Celebrating Bulgarian Writers with Elizabeth Kostova @ Malaprop's Bookstore
Join Malaprop’s Bookstore at 3 P.M. on Sunday, April 13th, for a celebration of Bulgarian writers. Authors Virginia Zaharieva and Albena Stambolova will be joined by Elizabeth Kostova for a conversation and reading. This event is free to the public and is co-sponsored by Black Balloon Publishing, the Elizabeth Kostova ...
>
Exhibit X: Amanda Michalopoulou
Join Exhibit X at the University of Buffalo on Thursday, April 10th, at 7 P.M. as they host an event with Greek author Amanda Michalopoulou. Michalopoulou’s story collection, I’d Like ,was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Her novel, Why I Killed My Best Friend, is her second book translated into English, ...
>
RTWCS: Women in Translation
Join us at the University of Rochester Thursday, April 10th, at 6 P.M. in the Welles-Brown Room (located in Rush Rees Library) for a conversation and reading with Bulgarian authors Albena Stambolova (Everything Happens as It Does) and Virginia Zaharieva (Nine Rabbits), and Danish author Iben Mondrup (Justine, forthcoming from ...
>
Tirza by Arnon Grunberg, Trans. by Sam Garrett [Why This Book Should Win]
Casey O’Neil is a bookseller at the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books. These days, he most often reads standing up, with a small sleeping daughter strapped to his torso. How to describe a book as affecting and unusual as Tirza I could cobble together a few ...
>