{"id":278016,"date":"2010-04-28T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/04\/28\/pen-world-voices-festival-preview-of-thursday-events\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:40:54","slug":"pen-world-voices-festival-preview-of-thursday-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/04\/28\/pen-world-voices-festival-preview-of-thursday-events\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN World Voices Festival (Preview of Thursday Events)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a bunch of things about the <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> World Voices events, but, well, life has sort of gotten in the way. Instead, what I think I&#8217;ll do is simply preview some of tomorrow&#8217;s events, and then tomorrow I&#8217;ll write up stuff about Friday and weekend. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m flying down early (like crack-of-dawn early) to write up a bunch of events for the <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> blog and for Three Percent. I&#8217;m also planning on interviewing Sofi Oksanen, Quim Monzo, and Mary Ann Newman for the Reading the World podcast series. And writing about the whole <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> World Voices experience for Publishing Perspectives. Oh, and attending as many parties as possible. (Not that I&#8217;ve actually been invited to any yet . . . Sigh.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here the Thursday events that I think sound most interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4684\/prmID\/1984\">Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics<\/a> <br \/>\n(Baruch College Vertical Campus College, 55 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street, 2:30\u20134:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alexander Hemon&#8217;s probably the big draw for most people, but I&#8217;d be more interested in seeing Esther Allen moderate this. And Martin Solares, whose <em>The Black Minutes<\/em> looks very intriguing, is also participating along with Major Jackson, Yiyun Li, and Marcel M\u00f6ring.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4687\/prmID\/1984\">That&#8217;s Not What I Meant!<\/a><br \/>\n(Instituto Cervantes, 211\u2013215 East 49th Street, 5:30\u20136:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Susan Bernofsky is moderating this discussion with Michael Hofmann and Peter Stamm about the challenges in bringing Stamm&#8217;s work into English. Stamm was one (although not the primary one) of the inspirations behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=2591\">this little bit of insanity<\/a> that I wrote at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4691\/prmID\/1984\"><em>Homesick<\/em>: Eshkol Nevo in Conversation with Michael Orthofer<\/a><br \/>\n(Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, 7\u20138 p.m.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize until I started putting this together, but all of my friends are moderating panels tomorrow . . . Anyway, this book sounds pretty interesting. Here&#8217;s a quote from a review in the <em>Independent<\/em>: &#8220;<em>Homesick<\/em> focuses on the relationship between student psychologist Amir and his student-photographer girlfriend Noa, but it moves fast to absorb the voices of their neighbours and covers several generations of Jews and Palestinians. Most striking is Nevo&#8217;s capacity to chart the delicate shifts in relationships and his skill in evoking longing for love, for a lost home, for parental attention and for renewal in stale marriage. He mixes his poignant observations of failing love with irony and occasional farce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4693\/prmID\/1984\">An Around the World Reading<\/a><br \/>\n(Joe\u2019s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, 7\u20138:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I like readings in pubs. As a bonus, the lineup is pretty solid: Preston L. Allen, Javier Cercas, Siri Hustvedt, Karl O. Knausgaard, Anne Landsman, Thomas Pletzinger, Monique Proulx, Lee Stringer, Christos Tsiolkas, and Tommy Wieringa <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4697\/prmID\/1984\">New York Stories<\/a><br \/>\n(The Morgan Library &amp; Museum, Gilder Lehrman Hall, 225 Madison Avenue, 7\u20138:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again with the awesome moderator . . . I can guarantee Edwin Frank will make this incredibly interesting. One of our authors&#8212;Quim Monzo, whose <em>Gasoline<\/em> is available now&#8212;is participating on this along with Darryl Pinckney, Colm Toibin, and Roxanna Robinson. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/4705\/prmID\/1984\">Literary Magazines: Here and Abroad, Now and in the Future<\/a><br \/>\n(Galapagos Art Space, <span class=\"caps\">DUMBO<\/span>, 16 Main Street, 7\u20138:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Huh, look at that, moderated by David Haglund. And starring John Freeman, Rodrigo Fres\u00e1n, Rob Spillman, M Mark, and Peter Stamm. Man do I wish I was flying down tomorrow instead of Friday . . . Ah well. Anyway, this should be really interesting, seeing that some great lit mags are represented here, including <em>Granta<\/em>, <em>Tin House<\/em> and <em><span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> America<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Hope everyone enjoys all these events . . . In addition to the pieces (or more likely &#8220;pieces,&#8221; since I think I&#8217;m going to be exhausted and not complete in my mind when I go to write up the events I&#8217;m attending) I&#8217;ll try and get some &#8220;reports from the field&#8221; to include later in the week(end). <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/23-monzo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/456.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a bunch of things about the PEN World Voices events, but, well, life has sort of gotten in the way. Instead, what I think I&#8217;ll do is simply preview some of tomorrow&#8217;s events, and then tomorrow I&#8217;ll write up stuff about Friday and weekend. 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