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part of the 2013 Pen World Voices Festival
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Alexander Vvedensky launch at Pravda bar
We’ve partnered with Read Russia, an organization that encourages translation and reading of Russian literature in the U.S. and across the globe, to launch our new poetry book (the first in a new series): Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitiation for Me to Think. Please join us at Pravda bar in NYC this Wednesday at 6:30 pm to celebrate the book, with our series editor Edwin Frank, along with translators (and poets in their own right) Eugene Ostahevsky and Matvei Yankelevich. Click here to RSVP, it promises to be a lot of fun.
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A Place Out of Time - Gregor von Rezzori’s Bukovina Trilogy
As part of the annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Michael Cunningham, Deborah Eisenberg, Daniel Kehlmann (who wrote the introduction to the recently published An Ermine in Czernopol) and Edmund White will discuss Gregor von Rezzori and his Bukovina Trilogy: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, The Snows of Yesteryear, and An Ermine in Czernopol, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Sunday, May 6th at 1 pm.
The talk will be moderated by our editor Edwin Frank, and will be of special interest to those fascinated both by foreign literature (particularly Central Europe) and the story of an area (Bukovina) increasingly split between the Romanian, Ukrainian, German, Russian, Polish, and Jewish inhabitants after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hanging over all the events and characters in the novels is the specter of the rise of the Nazis and the horrors to follow. If you book your tickets through our site as NYRB readers, you will get a $5 discount for the event!
“I treasure lovely images of my past in that part of the world. I will never find them elsewhere again. I have been back to the now-Russian part of the Bukovina twice. In both cases, I saw myself as a stranger looking backwards at a young man whom I distantly knew but who had very little to do with me.” - Gregor von Rezzori, in conversation with Andre Aciman in Salamagundi. For more on Rezzori check out BOMB Magazine, Issue 24, Summer 1988
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Eventful Spring
Upcoming readings and discussions in New York, Boston and the Bay Area
Wednesday, April 25th at 6:00 pm
Victor Serge: Remembering a Revolutionary
With Michael Taussig, Ross Poole, and McKenzie Wark
at The New School, Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Bldg, 65 West 11th Street, 5th FloorSunday, May 6th at 1:00 pm
Co-sponsored with PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
A Place Out of Time: Gregor von Rezzori’s Bukovina Trilogy
with Michael Cunningham, Deborah Eisenberg, Daniel Kehlmann, and Edmund White; moderated by Edwin Frank.Damion Searls will read from and discuss his English translation of Nescio’s Amsterdam Stories on both coasts in April and May
Tuesday, April 24th at 7:00 pm at 192 Books
Come and sip jenever and while listening to the words of one of Holland’s most beloved writers.Tuesday, May 8th at 7:00 pm
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
with Peter OrnerWednesday, May 9th at 7:00 pm
Co-sponsored by Books Inc and Palo Alto City Library
City of Palo Alto Library — Downtown Branch
Thursday, May 10th at 7:30 pm
Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, Berkeley
with Jeroen Dewulf, Director of Dutch Studies Program, UC-BerkeleyWednesday, May 23rd
Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge at 7:00 pm
