Private Life
In Josep Maria de Sagarra’s Private Life, a man harangues his friend about literature while walking through Barcelona at night: When a novel states a fact that ties into another fact and another and another, as the chain goes on the events begin to seem more and more extraordinary, and the characters take on a ...
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Naja Marie Aidt: A Reading and Conversation with CJ Evans at Litquake
Naja Marie Aidt’s Rock, Paper, Scissors (Open Letter Books), her long-awaited first novel, is a complex portrait of a man whose life slowly devolves into violence and jealousy. One of Denmark’s most decorated and beloved authors, Aidt will read from the newly released novel and share her thoughts on writing, being ...
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Jennifer Grotz @ Barnes & Noble College Town
Join Jennifer Grotz who will lead a reading and discussion of her latest translation of Hubert Haddad’s book “Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters”. An intriguing account of a house possesed, a clairvoyant and the emergence of the Spiritualist Movement. Sponsored by Open Letter Press. Don’t ...
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Naja Marie Aidt @ Magers & Quinn
Naja Marie Aidt reads from Rock, Paper, Scissors Naja Marie Aidt’s long-awaited first novel is a breathtaking page-turner and complex portrait of a man whose life slowly devolves into one of violence and jealousy. Rock, Paper, Scissors opens shortly after the death of Thomas and Jenny’s criminal father. While trying ...
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Svetlana Alexievich for the Nobel!
For the past few years, every time the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded, a certain number of journalists contact me about the winner, asking for information since, for the most part, they’ve never read or heard of these authors. Patrick Modiano. Herta Mueller. Mo Yan. Surprisingly, or maybe not so, I knew a ...
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Dinner
César Aira dishes up an imaginative parable on how identity shapes our sense of belonging with Dinner, his latest release in English. Aira’s narrator (who, appropriately, remains nameless) is a self-pitying, bitter man—in his late fifties, living again with his mother in his childhood home, in debt, jobless, never ...
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Words Without Borders & Naja Marie Aidt
Open Letter Books and Seminary Co-op Bookstores Present Danish author Naja Marie Aidt, reading from her long-awaited debut novel Rock, Paper, Scissors. Aidt will be joined in conversation by Susan Harris, editorial director of Words without Borders. Where: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL RSVP ...
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