Real consequences of writing the truth:

Knausgaard discusses his life in the wake of MY STRUGGLE, forthcoming in May from Archipelago.

  

Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award 2012 Fiction Longlist is up.

And Polish translator Bill Johnston is on it…TWICE!

Go, Bill!

 

Storyville features Herman Bosman’s
“Mafeking Road” as This Week’s Story!

Storyville features “one story each week from the best story collections published by commercial and independent presses” and works to “change the way you engage and interact with the world of literature through your iPhone, iPad, and Kindle.”

Download the app for various e-readers.

More info here.

Two back-to-back readings with Bill Johnston, Polish translator of Magdalena Tulli’s In Red.

February 23
7pm – FREE
192 Books
192 Tenth Street at 21st Street
New York, NY

February 25
5pm – FREE
Community Bookstore
143 Seventh Ave
Brooklyn, NY

Join us!

Amy Waldman declares Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin a “must read” in All Things Considered on NPR.

Elias Khoury is the author of Gate of the Sun, Yalo, White Masks, and the forthcoming As Though She Were Sleeping (all from Archipelago Books), is scheduled for two events at the PEN American Festival

Karl Ove Knausgaard is the author of A TIme for Everything and My Struggle, forthcoming from Archipelago in Spring 2012.

The PEN World Voices Festival will take place April 30 – May 6, 2012 in NYC.

Click here for more information.

An Homage to Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish and the Arab People

Sun, April 29, 2012 7:00 pm at Town Hall

Marcel Khalife and the Al Mayadine Ensemble:

Fall of the Moon–An Homage to the Late Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish and a Salute to the Arab People.

Tickets: $30-$75.

Click here for more information.

Independent Presses at the Old American Can Factory

Tuesday, November 22
7.30pm – 10.30pm

Issue Project Room
232 Third Street (3rd Flr)
Brooklyn, NY 11215

•• CELEBRATE ••
the spirit of literary independence
with the [oa] can factory indie presses

•• FREE ADMISSION ••
with food, beer, wine, music

•• AND READINGS BY ••
ROSS BENJAMIN, translator of Hyperion and Job (archipelago books)
LONELY CHRISTOPHER, The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse (akashic)
IRINA REYN, author of What Happened to Anna K., from a work in progress (habitus)
RACHEL CANTOR, “Picnic After the Flood” (one story)
JOHN SUROWIECKI, Mr. Z., Mrs. Z., J.Z., S.Z. (ugly duckling presse)

Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence was recommended by Robyn Creswell of The Paris Review!