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 […]
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 […]
On Oct 13 from 2-3:30 pm (EST) there will be a reading and event devoted to Libuše Moníková’s novel Transfigured Night, a novel by the émigré Czech writer recently published by Karolinum Press. Whereas Kundera’s transition from Czech to French in his emigration has been much discussed and documented, the much lesser-known Moníková’s writing in […]
The 5th PesText literary festival is underway in Budapest. It boasts a lineup of European writers including Mathias Énard, Janne Teller and many others. On Thursday Sept. 28 at 5pm, myself and a few other editors from B O D Y will discuss the magazine, among other scintillating topics, with moderator Sándor Jászberényi. If you’re […]
The 14th Prague Microfestival takes place next weekend. Billed as a festival of ‘International Writing, Art, Film, Theory and Performance’ it will take place at Punctum, Krásova 27 in Žižkov. Among the writers and performers I will be reading on Saturday, October 15 at 6:30 pm, together with a number of other writers. You can […]
On May 4, Duncan Robertson will be appearing at Shakespeare and Sons bookstore and cafe to read from his newly published novel Visegrad. I will be hosting the event – in the sense that I’ll introduce and do a Q&A with Duncan, not that I live in a bookstore. Visegrad is the picaresque journey of […]
Short notice on this one but at 6pm CET (12 noon EST) the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation series Writers and Influences continues with Irish writer Colum McCann discussing John Berger. The event is free online, you just need to register. The ongoing series continues next week on June 21 with Jeffrey Eugenides on Alice Munro, Henry […]
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