{"id":277046,"date":"2010-03-07T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/03\/07\/festival-neue-literatur-small-town-discussion\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:02","slug":"festival-neue-literatur-small-town-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/03\/07\/festival-neue-literatur-small-town-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Neue Literatur: Small Town Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where: Deutsches Haus <span class=\"caps\">NYU<\/span>, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Martin Becker, Lorenz Langenegger, John Wray <br \/>\nIn conversation with Daniela Strigl and Klaus N\u00fcchtern <\/p>\n<p>I hate being odd in a small town <br \/>\nIf they stare let them stare in New York City <br \/>\nAt this pink eyed painting albino <br \/>\nHow far can my fantasy go? <br \/>\nJohn Cale \/ Lou Reed: &#8220;Smalltown&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>German short-story author Martin Becker (<em>Ein sch\u00f6nes Leben<\/em>) and Swiss-born novelist Lorenz Langenegger (<em>Hier im Regen<\/em>) both write about being stuck in the provinces and trapped in the stifling atmosphere of a small town. Becker\u2019s characters, despite their struggles, find a humorous side to their slightly surreal existence. Whereas Lorenz Langenegger\u2019s protagonist is just not quite sure why he is where he is \u2013 in Bern. John Wray, an American with Austrian roots, set his first novel, <em>The Right Hand of Sleep<\/em>, in a fictitious Carinthian town. In his third novel, <em>Lowboy<\/em>, a schizophrenic teenager uses the confines of the subway tunnels to escape the constraints of his mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: Deutsches Haus NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY Free and open to the public Authors: Martin Becker, Lorenz Langenegger, John Wray In conversation with Daniela Strigl and Klaus N\u00fcchtern I hate being odd in a small town If they stare let them stare in New York City At this pink eyed painting albino [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349316,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277046\/revisions\/349316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}