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Ersi Sotiropoulos Reading Today in NYC
Those who want a taste of new Greek writing–as well as of a Best Translated Award nominated writer–can check out this Ersi Sotiropoulos reading tonight in NYC at 6:00 pm.
And for those who want an introduction to Ersi, check out George Fragopoulos’s review of her work at The Quarterly Conversation.
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- From the Greek The Brooklyn Rail has serialized a story from Greek writer Ersi Sotiropulos’s forthcoming collection, Landscape with Dog. I’ve read a number of stories from this...
- Contemporary Greek Literature In the new Words Without Borders, translator Karen Emmerich has an essay overviewing what's happening in contemporary Greek literature. And, the current issue of WWB...
- Four Greek Writers That You Should (and Can) Read On Tuesday, May 12, the translator Karen Emmerich read from various Greek works that she has translated into English. She spoke before a packed...
- Philadelphia, NYC Cutting Libraries Fallout from our ongoing recession. Library Journal: Eleven of 54 branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia will close and 111 positions will be lost...
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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Stealing from Conversational Reading
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The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
And Ersi will also be reading this Thursday night at Bookculture, on Manhattan’s upper west side. Info can be found here:
http://www.bookculture.com/