A Celebration of Time Ages in a Hurry at Community Bookstore

Please join us for a celebration of Antonio Tabucchi’s Time Ages in a Hurry at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, Thursday, April 30 @ 7 pm! The evening will feature a conversation with author Lynne Sharon Schwartz and translators Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani.

Antonio Tabucchi (1943-2012) is one of Italy’s most original and admired writers. The nine stories in Time Ages in a Hurry are imaginative inquiries into things hidden or disguised. Each protagonist must confront phantoms from the past, misguided beliefs, and puzzles of identity.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of more than 20 books, including the novels The Writing on the Wall, In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy, Disturbances in the Field and Rough Strife, and the poetry collections In Solitary and See You in the Dark. She is also a translator from Italian, and her translations include A Place to Live and Other Selected Essays by Natalia Ginzburg, and Smoke Over Birkenau, by Liana Millu. Schwartz’s reviews and criticism have appeared in many leading magazines and papers. She is presently on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Martha Cooley is the author of two novels, The Archivist and Thirty-Three Swoons. Her works of short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in PEN America, The Common, A Public Space, and others. She has translated numerous poems by Italian poet Giampiero Neri, and she served as Judge of the Poetry in Translation Prize at the PEN American Center in 2011. Cooley is currently a professor of English at the University of Adelphi and teaches writing in the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program.

 
Antonio Romani‘s translations of poems by Italian poet Giampiero Neri have been published in AGNI, Atlanta Review, PEN America, A Public Space, and others. He formerly taught Italian Literature and History in two high schools in Cremona and was the owner and manager of two bookstores. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York.