Events: October 11, 2012, Readings and Talks
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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Selected by Nathaniel Rich
Ongoing
Room 220 Live Prose Reading Series
Press Street, New Orleans
Room 220 is the only place to find serious (and also irreverent) discussion of literature in New Orleans. Its fall reading series begins September 27.
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