On Sept 29 there will be a panel presenting and discussing two works of Slovak fiction that besides being outstanding writing are unfortunately very timely. The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola and The Hours and The Minutes by Alfonz Bednár translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood and David Short respectively, are both collections of short […]
“When I’m at the zoo, apart from looking for Molnár and watching the animals, I observe human couples with their young. A mother with a leopard tattooed on her shoulder who moves like a stork. A cub of a human wanting to borrow a ball from a chimpanzee in the cage. A grandma with her […]
“Horror stares back at me surreptitiously from every corner of the flat with wide-open cats’ eyes. The reflexes I had of old have become alien to me. They tempt me to provoke her, but thankfully I’m still paralysed and the only way I can wind her up is by staring at her neck.” From “High […]
On Thursday, July 3 at 7pm, Heather Clark – writer of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath will be presenting her debut novel, Scrapbook, at Prague’s Shakespeare and Sons. I will be moderating. Hope to see you there.
This Sunday at 1pm I will be moderating a panel on Slovak literature at Prague Book World featuring Julia Sherwood, Rajendra Chitnis, Ivana Taranenková and Peter Darovec. We’ll be discussing Karolinum’s two latest Slovak novels among a variety of topics. I hope to see you there. More info here
On Thursday, May 1, I will be reading and talking about Central European writing and publishing together with award-winning Czech poet Petr Hruška. The event will take place at the T. G. Masaryk Czech School in Cicero. Hruška will be reading from I Caught Sight of My Face, his latest collection translated by Joshua Mensch. […]
On Friday, April 25 at 7pm Czech poet Petr Hruška together with poet and NYRB editor Jana Prikryl and poet Jeffrey McDaniel will be reading at the Czech Center in New York City. Hruška, who at this point has as many US tours as the Rolling Stones, will be presenting his recently translated book I […]
My short story, “White Light“, published in Panel a few years ago, is now available with the rest of the magazine as a free download. All issues of Panel are available for free download as well. Download “White Light” in Panel #7 here
I recently published a short story, “The House of Unrequited Love” in Trafika’s Gothic issue and they followed that up with an interview in which I talk about my work at Karolinum, this site, the translated fiction I publish in B O D Y and the aforementioned story. Listen to the interview here
My review of Derek Sayer’s Postcards from Absurdistan, his wide-ranging yet highly uneven account of 20th century Czech culture and the political storms it went through, has been published on Transitions Online. The book covers some very interesting, lesser-known writers, artists and architects as they navigated their way, personally and artistically, through independence, fascism, communism […]
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