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EVENT - Sept. 23, 2010 - Reading the World Conversation Series: Robert Walser and His “Microscripts”

Susan Bernofsky (Walser’s primary translator) and Barbara Epler (publisher at New Directions) come together to discuss Robert Walser’s lasting influence, the literary passion he inspires, and his recently published “microscripts” . . .

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Reading the World Conversation Series: Announcing Our Fall 2010 Events

The schedule for the fall 2010 “Reading the World Conversation Series” is now available—featuring a discussion on Robert Walser and his “Microscripts,” a roundtable on the state of international publishing, and a roundtable featuring four international writers from Ledig House, a writers residency in New York that specializes in hosting authors and translators from around the world. Full details within.

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Los Angeles Times reviews A THOUSAND PEACEFUL CITIES by Jerzy Pilch

“It offers Pilch—a prize-winning Polish novelist and newspaper columnist—a way to get at the absurdity of politics, the unbridgeable gap between public and private life. . . . The result is a vivid tension that is only amplified by the exuberance of the book.”

10 August 10 | More...