Join us at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop for an evening of reading and discussion of Abdellatif Laâbi's In Praise of Defeat, featuring the volume's translator, Donald Nicholson-Smith, and literary translator Emma Ramadan. Donald Nicholson-Smith was born in Manchester, England and is a longtime resident of New York City. His translations, ranging from psychoanalysis and social criticism to crime fiction, include works by Thierry Jonquet, Guy Debord, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, Raoul Vaneigem, Antonin Artaud, Jean Laplanche, and J.…