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SUMMARY:Archipelago's first book club
DESCRIPTION:Archipelago Books and Barbès are starting a book club!  \nJoin the editors for drinks and discussion at Barbès. Our pick for November is Sevgi Soysal’s Walking\, a novel first published in 1970 and translated from Turkish by Maureen Freely.  \nSoysal was a major figure in Turkey in the 60s and 70s\, a committed socialist opposing the military dictatorship and a novelist and short story writer. At Walking’s heart are two young people\, Elâ and Memet\, each trapped by forms they did not choose for themselves. Fury seems to power the novel\, but this fury expands into a larger attention and delicacy. Soysal writes about the earth as much as the society that surrounds her characters. It’s a beautiful and complex book\, rife for discussion. Books are available for purchase here\, and at Barbès a couple weeks ahead of our meeting.  \nAfter the discussion\, there will be an oud performance by Julie Dodge. \nJulie Dodge is a highly accomplished multi-instrumentalist and classical musician whose artistic journey spans the globe. Raised in Michigan by a classically trained mother with a Master of Music\, Julie studied for years under a Juilliard classical guitar instructor before establishing New York City as her home base for the last 27 years. Her deep musical curiosity has led her to study flamenco guitar in Sevilla\, Hindustani sitar\, and Brazilian bossa nova in Rio and New York. \nA turning point came during a photography project in Azerbaijan\, where Julie discovered the Oud. Captivated by its sound\, she dedicated herself to classical Turkish Oud\, eventually enrolling at a music conservatory in Ankara. Today\, she travels to Turkey twice a year for intensive training and studies online with world-renowned master Ali Kerim Öner. Immersing herself in both the instrument and the language\, she has found a natural resonance in this complex musical system\, building close ties with Turkish and Arabic musicians in New York and the Middle East. \nAn active performer\, Julie regularly collaborates in New York\, and recently spent the summer performing classical guitar in Barcelona and across Europe with a close friend. This winter\, she returns to Turkey to perform and continue her conservatory studies.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/a-book-club-with-archipelago/
LOCATION:Barbès\, 376 9th St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11215\, United States
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SUMMARY:December Book Club at Barbès
DESCRIPTION:Join the editors of Archipelago for drinks and discussion at Barbès. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 6pm. Our pick for December is Scholastique Mukasonga’s Murmurs from the Hills\, a collection of stories translated from French by Mark Polizzotti (who will be joining us at the book club!).  \nZadie Smith recently mentioned Murmurs from the Hills in a “10 Books That Moved Her Lately” roundup for Dua Lipa’s book club\, Service95. “Some people have stories in their bones. Mukasonga is like that. There’s an elemental aspect to her writing—it feels like it’s been handed down on tablets. If you haven’t read her before this is a good place to start.” \nBooks are available for purchase here\, and at Barbès a couple weeks ahead of our meeting.  \nAfter the discussion\, we’re hoping to arrange a performance of Rwandan zither music. Stay tuned!  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:January Book Club at Barbès
DESCRIPTION:Join the editors of Archipelago for drinks and discussion at Barbès. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 6pm. Our pick for January is Miljenko Jergović’s Inshallah\, Madonna\, Inshallah\, a collection of stories translated from Croatian Ellen Elias-Bursać and Mirza Purić. Ellen is traveling from Boston to join in the discussion. Her and Mirza have worked for many years on the translation.  \nInshallah has already garnered praise from critics and readers: \nIs there a better pure storyteller alive than Jergovic? In his books is the whole of life: little victories\, great losses\, deathless love and bitter resentment\, histories personal and national and especially local to Sarajevo\, the place Jergovic broadcasts in living color to the entire world and to posterity. Inshallah\, Madonna\, Inshallah continues his run of wise\, wry\, wild\, compassionate\, endlessly readable don’t-miss books. Long may he write!— John Darnielle \nI often find that I judge a work by the specific details that hold my attention: a word choice\, a character description. If they stick with me\, I hope they will draw in readers too. Whether others see what we see in beauty is at the heart of the short story “Akrap.” When an angel falls to earth\, the woman who finds him can’t prove he’s real. Her blind husband can’t see him. When the angel disappears\, some family members believe the woman’s claim\, others think it is a sign of her insanity. Miljenko Jergović shows us that even the highest form of beauty does not bring consensus. — Madeleine Schwartz\, The Dial \nBooks are available for purchase here\, and at Barbès a couple weeks ahead of our meeting.  \nAfter the discussion\, we’re hoping to arrange a singer to perform sevdalinka songs for us.  \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/january-book-club-at-barbs-copy/
LOCATION:Barbès\, 376 9th St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11215\, United States
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SUMMARY:February Book Club at Barbès
DESCRIPTION:Join the editors of Archipelago for drinks and discussion at Barbès. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 6pm. Whenever possible\, the organizers at Barbès try to pair our book club with a musical performance from a tradition tied to the book. Our pick for February is Elias Khoury’s first novel\, On the Relations of the Circle\, a mesmerizing tale of a young boy set on the eve of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975.  \nAn exquisite book\, like a novel in a funhouse mirror\, that reads like direct dictation from dream and nightmare alike. Written in sinuous\, startling lines\, every page displays Khoury’s signature keenness of perception about history\, nation\, and the self’s treacherous interior. This book is a crucial reminder that the world drawn askew can be the world drawn most precisely.— Elisa Gonzalez \nElias Khoury’s first novel\, On the Relations of the Circle\, exists within its own spacetime. Set on the eve of the Lebanese Civil War\, gravity shifts in these pages\, and the physics of the work follows that of dreams. Gorgeous and ethereal\, this is a must read from a beloved master of Arabic fiction.— Hannah Lillith Assadi \nThe salient quality of this wonderful novel is not found in plot summary. Though the story of an orphan in ’70s Beirut is compelling\, Khoury’s execution of how a consciousness emerges is brilliant and nearly peerless . . . I’ve only experienced this level of vivid and necessarily linked surreal imagery in Sergei Parajanov’s film The Color of Pomegranates. Just as every frame of that film could be a (powerful) painting\, each image you will encounter [in On the Relations of the Circle] can be studied in order to reveal the larger wonder of awakened being. — The Brooklyn Rail \nWhat a blessing to still get new Khoury books to read even after he’s gone . . . [On the Relations of the Circle] unfolds like the fragmented memories of childhood\, tracing the orphan Mansour through his encounters with his world and surroundings\, mystical and material. A gorgeous and poetic tale.— Samia Saliba\, Mizna \nBooks are available for purchase here\, and at Barbès a couple weeks ahead of our meeting. \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/february-book-club-at-barbs/
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