October 2019
Maureen Shaughnessy at Word Up Bookshop
Maureen Shaughnessy discusses her latest translation, The Scent of Buenos Aires by Hebe Uhart. Maureen Shaughnessy’s translations have been published by World Literature Today, Words Without Borders, Asymptote and The Antioch Review. Her translation of Hebe Uhart’s selected stories, The Scent of Buenos Aires, is forthcoming from Archipelago Books in October 2019. She lives in Bariloche, Argentina. Hebe Uhart’s stories sneak up on you. Refreshingly approachable, they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis. In The Scent of Buenos…
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Acrobat Poetry Reading with Nandana Dev Sen
Please join us for an in-person reading from Nandana Dev Sen's translation of her mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen's poems, collected in Acrobat. The reading will take place outside Word Up Community Bookshop on Saturday October 9th at 4pm. Memphis Washington and Nandana Dev Sen will discuss the book, followed by a Q&A with Dev Sen and Magdalena Hernandez. Gloria Steinem writes of Acrobat, "Poetry and music are both languages of the heart, so it is a special gift when a…
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