Andrea Bajani, Elizabeth Harris, and Stuart Dybek at Pilsen Community Books
On Thursday, April 8th at 7PM CST / 8 PM EST, Andrea Bajani, Elizabeth Harris, and Stuart Dybek celebrated If You Kept a Record of Sins, hosted by Pilsen Community Books! A recording of the event is available here. A sly, prismatic novel that
Andrea Bajani and Jhumpa Lahiri at Point Reyes Books
On Tuesday, April 1 at 9:00PM EST, Andrea Bajani joined Jhumpa Lahiri to celebrate and discuss his novel, If You Kept a Record of Sins, which was translated to English by Elizabeth Harris. Point Reyes Books hosted the conversation in
A conversation between Andrea Bajani and Edmund White, hosted by 192 Books / PCG Studio
On March 30th at 6PM EST, 192 Books hosted an online conversation between Andrea Bajani and Edmund White about Bajani’s novel, If You Kept a Record of Sins, published March 23rd. A recording of the event is available here! Andrea Bajani is one of the most respected
Pierre Joris, Geoffrey Brock, and Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody in conversation, moderated by Mary Ann Caws
On Tuesday, December 1st at 6:00pm EST, Pierre Joris, Geoffrey Brock, and Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody joined moderator Mary Ann Caws for a conversation hosted by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery. They discussed their recent translations of Paul Celan’s Memory Rose into
Andrea Bajani on Brad Listi’s OTHERPPL
Brad Listi hosted Andrea Bajani on his podcast Otherppl! Their conversation is available now. On the program, they discuss Bajani's novel If You Kept a Record of Sins, recently published by Archipelago Books, in a striking translation by Elizabeth Harris. Bajani
Announcing the Radical Books Collective
Our friends at Decolonize That! have launched the Radical Books Collective. The initiative "responds to the need for an alternative, inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading." Archipelago's Jill Schoolman will be serving on the board of directors. A community
An Urgent Duty of Remembrance: An Interview with Scholastique Mukasonga In The White Review
In an interview with Julian Lucas for The White Review, Scholastique Mukasonga discusses - among other things - her movement from autobiography to fiction, and the historical and cultural contexts of colonialism, gender roles, and the Catholic Church in her writing about
Daniel Handler discusses I Wish at the DC Public Library
On Tuesday, April 6th at 1:30 PM EST, Daniel Handler (best known as Lemony Snicket) will host a virtual discussion with Turning the Page DC about Elsewhere Editions' I Wish, written by Toon Tellegen and illustrated by Ingrid Godon, translated from
Scholastique Mukasonga awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom
Scholastique Mukasonga, author of Our Lady of the Nile, Cockroaches, The Barefoot Woman and Igifu, was awarded the prestigious Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom for 2021. The prize, which has been awarded since 2008, was created to mark the 100th
Jennifer Shyue on navigating identities and mother tongues in The Common
Jennifer Shyue, translator of Julia Wong Kcomt's forthcoming Bi-rey-nato, reflects on the different layers of her identity as a Taiwanese-American translator of Spanish. She writes about belonging and/or not belonging in many different cultures, about trying to explain her “hyphenation”