Events: NYR and NYRB
October 1, 2012, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Tyrant Banderas: Translating Valle-Inclán
Montclair State University, Montclair
Valle-Inclán’s classic novel of dictatorship was last translated into English in 1929. Peter Bush will discuss the process of translating it afresh for the twenty-first century.
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October 2, 2012, 6:30 pm
Tyrant Banderas Book Launch
Instituto Cervantes , New York
Peter Bush will introduce his new translation of Valle-Inclán's seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, which reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is memorably grotesque and disturbing. The event is free and open to the public.
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October 11, 2012, 12:30 pm
A talk by Peter Bush, translator of Tyrant Banderas, Baruch College (NYC)
Baruch cam Baruch Vertical Campus, New York
The translator will discuss his experience of reading the novel and the challenges of writing a new translation – the first into English since 1929 – of Valle’s Cubist, cartoon and camp representation of dictatorship in Latin America.
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October 11, 2012, 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Raise a Glass to Kingsley: A Celebration of Kingsley Amis with NYRB Classics and Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Housingworks Bookstore Cafe, New York
To celebrate the re-release of two books by iconic British author Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim and The Old Devils, New York Review of Books Classics and Vol. 1 Brooklyn present an evening dedicated to his life and work.
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October 16, 2012, 7 pm – 9 pm
E-book Launch for “Beirut, I Love You”
The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn
powerHouse Arena welcomes Zena el Khalil and NYRB Classics for an evening that will include entertainment by tap-dancing fellow TED fellow, Andrew J. Nemr, and Lebanese wine.
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October 17, 2012, 7 pm – 9 pm
Discussion and Signing with Daniel Mendelsohn at Barnes and Noble, Upper West Side (NYC)
Barnes and Noble, New York
The New York Review of Books cultural critic comes to Barnes & Noble for an evening to discuss his collection of essays on classical and popular culture.
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October 18, 2012, 6 pm – 8 pm
Busboys and Poets Bookstore presents Zena el Khalil, author of “Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir” (Washington, DC)
Busboys and Poets, Washington
Zena el Khalil is a young Beirut-based female artist, writer, and activist who had an unconventional but worldly upbringing growing up in Lagos, Nigeria and attended art school in New York. After 9/11 she returned to her familial home of Beirut.
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October 24, 2012, 7 pm – 9 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn at the powerHouse Arena
The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn
The New York Review of Books cultural critic comes to powerHouse for an evening to discuss his collection of essays on classical and popular culture.
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