7:30 pm EDT/4:30 pm PDT Join us for a Community Bookstore virtual event featuring Donald Nicholson-Smith, translator of Serge Pey’s Treasure of the Spanish Civil War, in conversation with Caleb Crain. The event is free, but please reserve a spot here. Donald Nicholson-Smith was born in Manchester, England and is a longtime resident of New […]
On September 23 at 6:00 pm EST, Scholastique Mukasonga joins Community Bookstore to present her new story collection Igifu, in conversation with Martha Cooley. Co-sponsored by Adelphi University’s MFA program. This event will be translated, and will take place on Zoom. Register for free here. Igifu, translated from the French by Jordan Stump, is a […]
On October 15th at 6:30pm EDT, Ivan Vladislavić joins Community Bookstore to present his new novel The Distance, in conversation with Peter Godwin. This event will take place on zoom, you can register here. In his youth in 1970s suburban Pretoria, Joe falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He diligently scrapbooks newspaper clippings of his his […]
Join Armine Kotin Mortimer and Martha Cooley as they discuss Christine Angot's An Impossible Love, hosted by Community Books. This event will take place virtually on April 19th at 7:30pm ET. Register for the event here. An Impossible Love by Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a social ball in […]
We are happy to invite you to a virtual conversation between Ida Jessen and Anne Michaels in celebration of Jessen's A Postcard for Annie, translated to English by Martin Aitken. Third Place Books and Community Bookstore will co-host the event, and it will be streamed live on Saturday, July 23rd 3PM EST. You can register […]
Join us for a virtual discussion about our new release - Sevgi Soysal's stunning 1975 novel Dawn. The book will be presented by the translator Maureen Freely, in conversation with Merve Emre. The event is hosted by Community Bookstore, in partnership with the Third Place Books and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith. It will […]
An evening of poetry with Tomasz Różycki and translator Mira Rosenthal at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn. This book tour was made possible thanks to support from the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
Please join us at Community Bookstore where Kalpana Raina will discuss her collaborative translation of For Now, It Is Night by Hari Krishna Kaul. Kalpana will be in conversation with professor, editor, and novelist Adam Dalva. Kalpana Raina was born in Kashmir and lives in New York. She is a senior executive with extensive financial, […]
