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SUMMARY:Exploring Peach Blossom Paradise
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, May 9th at 10:00am for a story time and a fantastical drawing activity with special guest\, Ruth Chan\, to celebrate Xiong Liang’s new book\, Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise. This event is ideal for ages 6-12\, but all are welcome! RSVP here.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/exploring-peach-blossom-paradise/
LOCATION:Spiral Books\, 147 Sullivan Street\, New York City\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:An evening with Patrizio Ceccagnoli & Megan Kaminski
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Raven Book Store on April 28th for an evening with Patrizio Ceccagnoli\, co-translator of Milo De Angelis’ Last Stops of the Night Journey\, and poet Megan Kaminski. The two will honor and read from De Angelis’ glimmering collection that speaks to his experiences teaching poetry at a prison outside Milan. We so hope you can make it. \n“Here are a series of recollections that approach each memory and experience with a philosophical flair that is monumental in its emotional conveyance. There’s a sepia-toned quality to De Angelis’ poetry (beautifully translated here by Ceccagnoli and Stewart) that is both artistically mindful but also timeless: interactions and dialogues with old friends\, reflections on past experiences and ruminations on mortality\, transience and beauty all take center stage and impress upon the reader an almost allegorical approach\, as if there is a lesson to be learned by interacting with each poem. Spellbinding and funereal\, this book has the unique ability to make you feel its loneliness\, but also somehow enjoy it at the same time.” —Trevor Ruth\, Changing Hands\, Tempe\, Arizona
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/an-evening-with-patrizio-ceccagnoli/
LOCATION:Raven Book Store\, 809 Massachusetts St.\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66044\, United States
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SUMMARY:Selma Asotić & Abigail Chabitnoy at Amherst Books
DESCRIPTION:On April 22nd\, Selma Asotić will join Abigail Chabitnoy for a conversation around Asotic’s Say Fire. Swing by Amherst Books for a lively reading and conversation around this debut collection\, published in the fall.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/selma-asotic-and-abigail-chabitnoy-discuss-say-fire-at-amherst-books/
LOCATION:Amherst Books\, 8 Main Street\, Amherst\, MA\, 01002\, United States
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SUMMARY:Salt\, Stone and Stars: Celebrating the Timeless Pastoral
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in an afternoon of words and image to celebrate the deep resonance between two pastoral works separated by nearly a century but joined by the timeless rhythms of shepherding\, and both connected to Vermont. Helen Whybrow will read from her memoir\, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, and Jody Gladding will read from her translation of Jean Giono’s novel\, The Serpent of Stars (Archipelago Books\, 2026). \nThe connection between these books is personal and profound; Whybrow first discovered Jean Giono’s 1933 novel in a local bookstore years ago\, and found in its description of Provençal shepherds an initiation into the rich narrative traditions of the pastoral life. Her memoir\, The Salt Stones\, traces her journey into becoming a shepherd at Knoll Farm in Fayston\, Vermont and\, throughout\, The Serpent of Stars serves as her muse. The Salt Stones was longlisted for the National Book Award and named a New Yorker Best Book of 2025. Jody Gladding\, an acclaimed poet\, and translator of over 30 books\, lives in East Calais. Her beautiful translation of Giono’s The Serpent of Stars is being reissued in February 2026.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/salt-stone-and-stars-celebrating-the-timeless-pastoral/
LOCATION:Highland Center for the Arts\, 2875 Hardwick Street\, Greensboro\, VT\, 05841\, United States
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SUMMARY:Selma Asotić & Stacy Mattingly at Brookline Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event on March 27th with poet Selma Asotić to discuss and honor the release of Say Fire. She will be in conversation with writer Stacy Mattingly. \nThe Transnational Series focuses on stories of migration\, the intersection of politics and literature\, and works in translation and is supported by the independent bookstore Brookline Booksmith. Subscribe to the Transnational Series newsletter for information on upcoming events\, book recommendations\, and more.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/selma-asotic-and-stacy-mattingly-at-brookline-booksmith/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard St\, Brookline\, MA\, 02446\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alyson Waters & Tess Lewis on The Monroe Girls
DESCRIPTION:On March 24th\, we’ll gather at Community Bookstore for a celebration of the publication of Antoine Volodine’s vertiginous novel\, The Monroe Girls\, translated from French by Alyson Waters. Alyson will be joined by fellow Archipelago translator Tess Lewis. Come for some wine and a lively conversation of this “grimly comic and brightly horrifying” (Kevin Brockmeier) book—7pm! \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/alyson-waters-tess-lewis-on-the-monroe-girls/
LOCATION:Community Bookstore\, 143 7th Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11215\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live in Translation: The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón
DESCRIPTION:Archipelago Books and Bushwick Library are pleased to welcome Eliana Hernández-Pachón and Natasha Tiniacos to discuss The Brush\, a fearless\, incantatory exploration of collective trauma\, telling the story of a traumatic event in recent Colombian history: the massacre in the village of El Salado between February 16 and 21\, 2000. The conversation will be in Spanish with live English interpretation.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/live-in-translation-the-brush-by-eliana-hernandez-pachon/
LOCATION:Bushwick Brooklyn Public Library\, 340 Bushwick Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11206\, United States
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Launch of Jean Giono’s The Serpent of Stars and the publication of Jean Follain’s Earthly
DESCRIPTION:Join Archipelago Books and The Song Cave in celebrating the reprint of Jean Giono’s The Serpent of Stars and the publication of Jean Follain’s Earthly. Both Giono and Follain were writers from rural France who came of age during WWI. As the agrarian lifestyle they were raised in was forever altered by the twin forces of WWII and industrialization\, they used writing to engage with these century-defining dynamics. Follain refers to the “uncertainty at the root of time” and observes plainly in one of his poems: “There are almost no more horses.” Giono renders the disorientation of the times with a paradox: “When mysteries are very crafty\, they hide in the light; shadows are merely a decoy.” The event will feature readings from the two books by Andrew Seguin and Mark Polizzotti\, as well as a conversation between Edwin Frank and Michael Wood.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/celebrating-the-launch-of-jean-gionos-the-serpent-of-stars-and-the-publication-of-jean-follains-earthly/
LOCATION:Community Bookstore\, 143 7th Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11215\, United States
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SUMMARY:Italian Cultural Institute in New York Book Club: One\, None\, and a Hundred Grand by Luigi Pirandello
DESCRIPTION:Special guest: Sean Wilsey\, translator of the newest edition of One\, None\, and a Hundred Grand. \nLuigi Pirandello’s final novel (published 1926)\, explores the fragmented nature of identity through main character\, Vitangelo Moscarda\, who suddenly realizes he is perceived as a different person by everyone he knows. This recognition leads him to question his own self and ultimately he seeks to dissolve his identity entirely. The story begins with a seemingly minor comment from his wife about his nose\, triggering a crisis that reveals the gap between his self-perception and the “hundred thousand” versions of him that exist in others’ minds\, making him “no one” in his own quest for a unified self. It’s a key work of modernism\, delving into themes of perception\, reality\, and the self. \nMarisa Castagno and Emanuele Capoano will be our guides throughout this journey. \nWhen purchasing directly from the publisher\, archipelagobooks.org\, IIC Book Club members receive a 40% discount on the cost of the book by using PIRANDELLO40 coupon code at check-out.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/italian-cultural-institute-in-new-york-book-club-one-none-and-a-hundred-grand-by-luigi-pirandello/
LOCATION:Italian Cultural Institute in New York\, 686 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10065\, United States
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SUMMARY:Problemas de identidad: Trilingual Reading of João Cabral de Melo Neto’s Education by Stone
DESCRIPTION:The poetry collective Como un lugar is hosting a trilingual program of performances and readings featuring João Cabral de Melo Neto’s Education by Stone. His poems will be read in Spanish\, Portugese\, and English. This is the second reading in a translation series titled Problemas de identidad. Tickets are $10 and vegan feijoada will be available for $10 as well.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/problemas-de-identidad-trilingual-reading-of-joao-cabral-de-melo-netos-education-by-stone/
LOCATION:Windjammer Bar\, 5-52 Grandview Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Selma Asotić reads at Cafe Ornithology
DESCRIPTION:On January 31st\, 1pm\, Selma Asotić will read a selection from her book\, Say Fire\, which Archipelago brought out this fall. Her reading will be followed by a performance by Justin Salisbury (piano) and Daniele Germani (saxophone) for an improvised duo inspired by the book. \n  \n“An intimate and visceral collection. Say Fire is a collection that lives in the body. A fire that starts from the very core of a being. A staggering achievement.” —Pierce Alquist\, Book Riot
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/selma-asotic-reads-at-cafe-ornithology/
LOCATION:Cafe Ornithology\, 1037 Broadway\, Brooklyn\, 11221\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T190000
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SUMMARY:Kalpana Raina at The World's Borough Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, January 30th for an evening with Kalpana Raina\, translator of Hari Krishna Kaul’s resonant story collection For Now\, It Is Night\, and Radha Vatsal at The World’s Borough Bookshop in Queens. The two will talk about this collaborative translation from Kashmiri and the art of translation—with wine and nibbles to follow!
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/kalpana-raina-at-the-worlds-borough-bookshop/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Jackson Heights\, NY\, 11372\, United States
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SUMMARY:Archipelago Books at Press Play 2025
DESCRIPTION:Archipelago Books is proud to be one of the exhibitors at the sixth edition of Press Play\, a weekend-long fair of books\, records\, art\, ephemera\, talks\, and workshops\, returning on December 13–14\, 2025. \nShowcasing over 130 artists\, musicians\, poets\, writers\, and exhibitors who defy categorization\, Press Play invites you to discover new ways of reading\, listening\, creating\, and complaining about culture. Curated by Micaela Durand\, Pioneer Works Associate Director of Publishing\, this year’s program confronts the complexities of desire\, from sadomasochism and online subcultures to loneliness\, sex\, and what it means to connect today. \nFor more information about the event and to purchase your tickets click here!
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/archipelago-books-at-press-play-2025/
LOCATION:Pioneer Works\, 159 Pioneer Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening & Book Launch: An encounter with Cesare Pavese
DESCRIPTION:Archipelago is thrilled to collaborate with The Theater of the Matters to present an evening of Pavese. Join us on December 10th at BAM for a special 35mm presentation of Straub-Huillet’s film These Encounters of Theirs\, a screening to launch our publication of Minna Zallman Proctor’s new translation of Cesare Pavese’s The Leucothea Dialogues. \nMinna Zallman Proctor will introduce the film alongside curator Edward McCarry. After the film\, we’ll gather at nearby bar DSK (710 Fulton St\, Brooklyn\, NY 11217) to celebrate. \n  \nTICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.bam.org/film/2025/archipelago  \n  \nThe Film \nThese Encounters of Theirs \nDirs. Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub \n2005. 68 min. 35mm. \nIn Italian with English subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Book \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Leucothea Dialogues \nby Cesare Pavese \nTranslated from Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor \nPublished: October 14\, 2025
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/film-screening-book-launch-an-encounter-with-cesare-pavese/
LOCATION:BAM Film\, 30 Lafayette Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bill Johnston and Will Chancellor discuss Needle's Eye
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Center for Brooklyn History on November 20th\, 7pm\, for an evening with translator Bill Johnston and Will Chancellor\, novelist and critic\, as they discuss Johnston’s translation of Needle’s Eye\, the latest novel by renowned Polish author Wiesław Myśliwski. A lyrical\, nonlinear meditation on memory\, time\, and history\, Needle’s Eye blends autobiography and fiction to reflect on a half-century of Polish life. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute and The Brooklyn Rail. \nBill Johnston received the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry for his rendering of Adam Mickiewicz’s epic narrative poem in rhyming couplets Pan Tadeusz (Archipelago Books\, 2018). He translates from Polish and French; his recent translations have included work by Julia Fiedorczuk\, Wiesław Myśliwski\, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz\, and Jeanne Benameur. His other honors include the PEN Translation Prize\, the Best Translated Book Award for Fiction\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches literary translation at Indiana University. \nAuthor of the novel A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall (Harper Perennial\, 2014)\, Will Chancellor edits fiction at the Brooklyn Rail. His writing has appeared in Bookforum\, Lit Hub\, The New York Times Magazine\, Interview\, Electric Literature\, The White Review\, and The New York Times. He recently wrote on the Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda for David Zwirner books (Lucas Arruda: Deserto-Modelo). \n  \n   
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/bill-johnston-and-will-chancellor-discuss-needles-eye/
LOCATION:Center for Brooklyn History\, 128 Pierrepont Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sean Wilsey and Jennifer Egan on Luigi Pirandello
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening at Archestratus Books\, where Sean Wilsey and Jennifer Egan will join forces to discuss Wilsey’s translation of One\, None\, and a Hundred Grand\, Luigi Pirandello’s tragicomic classic. We’ll be serving up some delectable Sicilian wine to accompany this delectable conversation. We hope to see you! \n  \nSean Wilsey is the author of a memoir\, Oh the Glory of It All\, an essay collection\, More Curious\, and\, in collaboration with the actress Molly Shannon\, the bestselling memoir Hello\, Molly! His documentary film about 9/11\, IX XI\, is forthcoming in 2026. \nJennifer Egan’s 2017 novel\, Manhattan Beach\, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read.  Her previous novel\, A Visit From the Goon Squad\, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and was on the list of Best Books of the 21st Century in the New York Times.  Her new novel\, The Candy House\, a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad\, was one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2022 and one of President Obama’s favorite reads of the year.  Also a journalist\, she recently spent a year writing on street homelessness and supportive housing for The New Yorker.  She has served as President of PEN America.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/sean-wilsey-and-jennifer-egan-on-luigi-pirandello/
LOCATION:Archestratus Books + Food\, 164 Huron St\, Brooklyn\, 11222\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wickerwork: A Poetry-in-Translation Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Princeton’s German Department for a conversation with Wickerwork’s author Christian Lehnert\, winner of the Hölderlin Prize 2025\, and translator Richard Sieburth. This event brings the two together for a fruitful exchange between poet and translator and thereby promises to be an especially stimulating opportunity for participants to gain rare insights into the craft of lyric poetry and its move into another verbal and cultural idiom. The dialogue will be centered on the poetry of Christian Lehnert and its recent series of English translations by Richard Sieburth. The event will be the first time Lehnert has appeared in the United States. \n  \nFor more information on this event\, please visit Princeton’s German Department website by clicking on the link here.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/wickerwork-a-poetry-in-translation-conversation/
LOCATION:German Department – Princeton\, 205 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T190000
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SUMMARY:Emmelie Prophète and translator Aidan Rooney at the Brookline Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with author Emmelie Prophète and translator Aidan Rooney to discuss and honor the release of Cécé. \n  \nThe Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith \nThe Transnational Series focuses on stories of migration\, the intersection of politics and literature\, and works in translation and is supported by the independent bookstore Brookline Booksmith. Subscribe to the Transnational Series newsletter for information on upcoming events\, book recommendations\, and more. \n  \nWhat You Need to Know to Attend \nRSVP to let us know you’re coming! RSVPs don’t guarantee a seat\, but you’ll be alerted to important details about the program\, including safety requirements\, cancellations\, and book signing updates. \n  \nReserve a Book \n\nBooks will be available for purchase at the event\, but you can ensure that you get a copy by preordering on this page. You can pick your book up after 6:30PM on the day of the event.\nCan’t make it to the event? Preorder the book here to have it signed\, and choose to have it held or shipped from the store! Book orders are processed for pickup or shipping after ticket sales have closed.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/emmelie-prophete-and-translator-aidan-rooney-at-the-brookline-booksmith/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard St\, Brookline\, MA\, 02446\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T200000
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SUMMARY:Emmelie Prophète and Jessica Rankin Discuss Cécé at the Flatbush Library
DESCRIPTION:Join the Flatbush Brooklyn Public Library for a discussion with Emmelie Prohète and Jessica Rankin on Prophète’s new book Cécé. Food and refreshments will be provided by BunNan BK. Please RSVP in advance—registration is required. RSVP here. \nEmmelie Prophète\, born in 1971 in Port-au-Prince\, is a poet\, novelist\, diplomat\, and activist. She is the author of two poetry collections and six novels\, the first of which won the Grand Prix littéraire de l’Association des écrivains de langue française. Cécé\, published in French as Les Villages de Dieu\, was awarded the Prix Fetkann Maryse Condé Prize in 2021. Prophète\, a former director of the National Library of Haiti\, lives in Port-au-Prince. \nJessica Rankin was born in 1971 in Sydney\, Australia. She lives and works in New York. Notable exhibitions include White Cube Hong Kong\, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens\, Deurle\, Belgium\, and MoMA PS1\, New York.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/emmelie-prohete-cece-discussion-at-the-flatbush-library/
LOCATION:Flatbush Libary\, 22 Linden Blvd. at Flatbush Ave.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11226\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T233000
DTSTAMP:20250812T214702Z
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SUMMARY:The Afterparty
DESCRIPTION:The fun continues next door at the lovely Cafe Gitane. Join us in the cutest little cobblestone corner of Brooklyn for drinks\, snacks\, and the chance to win some luxurious raffle prizes. We’ll have snacks and (always) too much wine! Tickets support our mission to publish extraordinary literature in translation each year. Bring your friends—tickets available here.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/the-afterparty/
LOCATION:Cafe Gitane\, 70 Hudson Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T213000
DTSTAMP:20250811T155550Z
CREATED:20250513T154047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250811T155550Z
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SUMMARY:Archipelago's Fall Fête 2025
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, we host a gathering to benefit the press and share our latest books with a community of supporters here in Brooklyn. You are warmly invited to join us for a festive evening to celebrate the press—honoring our writers\, translators\, booksellers\, and the generous community that has kept the press going for its first twenty years. If you are unable to attend in person\, consider sponsoring a translator for the evening. \nReserve your tickets here.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/archipelagos-fall-fete-2025/
LOCATION:Vinegar Hill House\, 72 Hudson Ave.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T150000
DTSTAMP:20250909T183125Z
CREATED:20250909T182115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T183125Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Storytime at the Chatham Square Library: Xiong Liang’s Take a Walk With the Wind
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Chatham Square branch of the New York Public Library for a bilingual storytime of Take a Walk With the Wind\, read in the original Chinese by author Xiong Liang and in the translated English by Roxane Hsu Feldman. The reading will be followed by an interactive collaging activity. \nThis event is suitable for families and children three and up! \nTake a Walk With the Wind\, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts\, will be published on September 30\, 2025. Books will be available for purchase at the event or you can pre-order them here.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/bilingual-storytime-at-the-chatham-square-library-xiong-liangs-take-a-walk-with-the-wind/
LOCATION:Chatham Square New York Public Library\, 33 E Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Xiong Liang Book Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T200000
DTSTAMP:20250909T213436Z
CREATED:20250804T183415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T213436Z
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SUMMARY:A Book Launch for Xiong Liang's Take A Walk With the Wind
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/a-book-launch-for-xiong-liangs-take-a-walk-with-the-wind/
LOCATION:Sullaluna\, 41 Carmine Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T203000
DTSTAMP:20250402T144956Z
CREATED:20250402T144956Z
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SUMMARY:Translator Kalpana Raina reads at First Tuesdays in Jackson Heights
DESCRIPTION:Kalpana Raina\, who translated HK Kaul’s For Now It is Night from the Kashmiri alongside Gowhar Fazili\, Gowhar Yaquoob\, and Tanveer Ajsi will read as part of First Tuesdays in Jackson Heights. \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/translator-kalpana-raina-reads-at-first-tuesdays-in-jackson-heights/
LOCATION:Espresso 77\, 35-57 77th Street\, Jackson Heights\, NY\, 11372\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T163000
DTSTAMP:20250811T165242Z
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SUMMARY:Find us at BOMB's Small Press Flea
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be there from one to five!
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/find-us-at-bombs-small-press-flea/
LOCATION:Amant\, 316 Ten Eyck Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T210000
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SUMMARY:A Reading from Works in Progress at Unnameable Books
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/a-reading-from-works-in-progress-at-unnameable-books/
LOCATION:Unnameable Books\, 615 Vanderbilt Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250620T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250620T200000
DTSTAMP:20250610T164117Z
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SUMMARY:Lucas Adams and Álvaro Enrigue on Quino's Mafalda
DESCRIPTION:On June 20th\, we’ll gather at McNally Jackson Seaport to celebrate the release of Quino’s legendary Argentine comic\, Mafalda. Lucas Adams and Álvaro Enrigue will join forces to discuss Frank Wynne’s vivifying translation and Mafalda‘s sensational impact in Latin America and beyond. Enrigue says that he “understands the world\, still\, through the eyes of Mafalda”—there’s no better pair to help us bring Mafalda to English readers. This event will begin at 6:30pm\, we hope to see you! \nLucas Adams is the editor of New York Review Comics\, an imprint of New York Review Books. His cartoons\, illustrations\, and writing have appeared in The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review Online\, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Sunnyside\, New York. \nÁlvaro Enrigue was a Cullman Center Fellow and a Fellow at the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies. He has taught at New York University\, Princeton University\, the University of Maryland\, and Columbia University. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Believer\, The White Review\, n+1\, London Review of Books\, El País\, among others. Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City. \nQuino was an Argentine cartoonist whose beloved Mafalda comic strips were first published in 1964 and ran until 1973. Quino created the utterly original\, inquisitive\, intelligent\, ironic\, non-conformist Mafalda\, whose greatest concerns are peace and human rights (one day\, she plans to be a UN ambassador). The stories of his rebellious character have been translated into twenty-six languages and published in newspapers and magazines worldwide. Quino’s awards include the Cartoonist of the Year Award at the International Salon of Montreal (1982)\, two Konex Platinum Awards for Visual Arts-Graphic Humour (1982 and 1992)\, the Quevedos Latin American Prize for Graphic Humour (2000)\, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities (2014). Life-size statues of Mafalda dot park benches and gardens throughout Latin America.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/lucas-adams-and-alvaro-enrigue-on-mafalda/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St\, New York\, 10038
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T200000
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SUMMARY:A six-year-old's plea for peace: discussing Mafalda's legacy with Idra Novey & Kirmen Uribe
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Sullaluna on June 12th to celebrate Quino’s legendary Argentine comic\, Mafalda. Just two days after Mafalda’s English-language debut\, Idra Novey and Kirmen Uribe will come together to discuss her precocious politics\, vivifying pleas for peace\, and questions that radiate through to the present. Mafalda has delighted readers for decades\, and we’re excited to have Novey and Uribe guide us through her spirited games and visions. Books\, wine\, and snacks will be available—we hope to see you there!\n\n\n\nIdra Novey is a novelist\, poet\, and translator. Her recent novel Take What You Need was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023and a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her translations include Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and Garous Abdolmalekian’s Lean Against the Late Hour\, co-translated with Ahmad Nadalizadeh\, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Poetry in Translation Prize. Her new book of poems\, Soon and Wholly\, was longlisted for this year’s PEN/Voelcker Prize. \nKirmen Uribe is a Basque Language writer\, and one of the most relevant writers of his generation in Spain. He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao\, a work that was acclaimed as a literary event. The languages into which his books had been translated already exceed twenty\, including French (Gallimard)\, Japanese (Hakusui Sha) and English (Coffee House Press). His works have been published on several American publications such as The New Yorker or The Paris Review. In 2017\, he was selected for the International Writers Program (IWP) in Iowa. In 2018\, he won the NYPL Cullman Center Fellowship. \nOrder a copy of Mafalda here! Register for this event here!
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/book-launch-for-quinos-mafalda-at-sullaluna/
LOCATION:Sullaluna\, 41 Carmine Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T203000
DTSTAMP:20250612T164147Z
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SUMMARY:Montreal's Moment!Culture Book Launch for Quino's Mafalda
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to the book launch of the first edition of Mafalda on June 12th at 6:00pm at Moment!Culture at Espace Amalgame. “Mafalda” comics have at last been translated by Frank Wynne into English language thanks to Archipelago Books in Brooklyn\, New York. Now the message of this iconic character will spread immeasurable further throughout the whole world. Our cultural space Moment!Culture at Espace Amalgame\, Mafalda’s home in Montreal\, will join this June 12th celebration that will take place simultaneously in Brooklyn and the Mile-End. It is with great enthusiasm that we announce that our Moment!Culture boutique will have the first and only English copies in the city of Montreal and Canada for sale at this event. See you then! \nLivia Magnani is the founder of Moment!Culture and the vice-president of Espace Amalgame\, an artistic production company specializing in set and costume. \nOrder a copy of Mafalda here! Register for this event here!
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/momentculture-book-launch-for-quinos-mafalda/
LOCATION:Espace Amalgame\, 5691 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, QC\, H2T 1S9\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250602T200000
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SUMMARY:Lara Norgaard and Rick Moody at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Join Lara Norgaard and Rick Moody at Harvard Book Store for a discussion of Felix Nesi’s People from Oetimu\, translated from Indonesian by Norgaard. This event will include a reading\, conversation\, and signing to follow. We hope to see you there! \nLara Norgaard is a PhD student in comparative literature at Harvard. Among other things\, she writes about collective memory of state violence\, leftist cultural circulation between Latin America and Southeast Asia\, and histories of U.S.- backed\, anti-communist military dictatorships. Her reporting alongside a team of five Brazilian reporters on forced displacements in Rio de Janeiro received the Vladimir Herzog Prize for human rights journalism. \nRick Moody is the author of six novels (including THE ICE STORM)\, three collections of stories (including DEMONOLOGY)\, and three works of nonfiction. He writes regularly about music and teaches at Tufts University.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/lara-norgaard-and-rick-moody/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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