PEN World Voices: Saturday
Well, I didn’t make it to as many PEN events as I had hoped to on Saturday—there are so, so many, and with things starting right after one another it’s really kind of tricky—but the ones I attended were amazing. It actually was an “all German” sort of day . . . First off was a conversation between Ingo Schulze ...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Friday
Post-Rusdie/Eco—and post a few celebration drinks—I caught a 6am flight down to New York to attend the rest of the PEN World Voices Festival. (And meet with reviewers and bookstores about our first list, but that’s boring, um, business.) E.J. and I made it to three events yesterday, and have a ton lined ...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Eco/Rushdie
Well, after a couple days of silence, we’re back with a mini-report from the fourth annual PEN World Voices Festival in New York City. Mainly New York City, that is. On Thursday, University of Rochester/Open Letter hosted one of the first festival events to take place outside of NYC when we had a special reading and ...
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Argentine Literature and its Monsters (Part 2/2)
Below is the text of the speech that Carlos Gamerro gave earlier in the week on the history of Argentine literature. I found this really interesting, and am very glad that Carlos is allowing us to publish it here. See the bottom of the article for a list of all the authors and books mentioned in the speech. There were no ...
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America, oh, America
After a week of writing about how much I loved the editors week in Argentina I hate to do this, but I have to go on a bit of a rant about the U.S. Embassy in Argentina. It’s important to provide a bit of background first: Fundacion TyPA supports a number of artistic activities in Argentina, including this ...
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You're Blocking the Culture!
That’s the phrase that attendees of the Guadalajara Book Fair scream when they can’t get into overbooked events . . . Having attended Guadalajara a couple of times, I can attest to the passion for literature among those who go to the book fair. It’s pretty amazing to witness, and completely unlike anything ...
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Argentine Literature and its Monsters (Part 1/2)
Below is the text of the speech that Carlos Gamerro gave earlier in the week on the history of Argentine literature. I found this really interesting, and am very glad that Carlos is allowing us to publish it here. Tomorrow we’ll publish part 2, which includes a list of all the authors and books mentioned in the ...
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