Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Some Literary Events / April 29 - May 7

All events free unless otherwise noted. Programs are subject to last-minute cancellation; we urge the reader to check with the venue's website or to call for reconfirmation.


April 29 (10:00am - 12:00 pm) Writing, Speaking, Dreaming: Authors Talk About Languages. Bernardo Atxaga, Randa Jarrar, Roger Sedarat, and Francisco X. Stork discuss the ways in which they rely upon, contend with, and work through a language other than English in their professional and creative lives. Moderated by Cathy Park Hong. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. For information on bringing your class to this event, please contact Stacy Leigh at (212) 334-1660 ext. 109. Co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes. At Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information, click here or call 212-308-7720.

April 29 (2:30 - 4:30 pm) Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics. Baruch College’s Great Works Program will ask writers Aleksander Hemon, Major Jackson, Yiyun Li, and Martin Solares to select a classic work from those being studied in the program and discuss its resonance within his or her own life and work. Panel discussion moderated by Esther Allen. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. Co-sponsored by the Great Works Program, Weissman School of the Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY. At Baruch Vertical Campus College, CUNY, Multi-Purpose Room (ground floor, room 1-107), Lexington Avenue at 25th Street. For more information, click here or call 212-334-1660, ext. 121.

April 29 (5:oo pm). Poetry Reading: Willie Perdomo. Poet Willie Perdomo reads from his work at New York City College of Technology's annual Literary Arts Festival. At NYCCT's Klitgord Center Auditorium, 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn. For more information, click here or call 718-260-4975.

April 29 (7:00 - 8:30 pm) Literary Magazines: Here and Abroad, Now and in the Future. Join the editors of Granta, Tin House, and PEN America—along with contributing writers Rodrigo Fresnán and Peter Stamm—for a freewheeling conversation about the past, present, and future of literary magazines, both in the United States and abroad. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. Co-sponsored by Galapagos Art Space and PEN America. At Galapagos Art Space, DUMBO, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn. For more information, click here or call 718-222-8500.

April 29 (7 pm) Raúl Zurita at the King Juan Carlos. Chilean poet Raúl Zurita will present the bilingual, en face edition of his book Purgatorio (The University of California Press). Translated by Anna Deeny. Reception to follow. Part of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Poetry series, co-sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish Program. At NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets) For more information, click here or call 212-998-3650.

April 29 (7:00 - 8:30 pm) A Gathering of Voices at Instituto Cervantes. Distinguished children’s book authors David Almond, Francisco X. Stork, Janne Teller, and Ed Young talk about their work and its national culture sources. Moderated by Elizabeth Bird. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. At Instituto Cervantes, Auditorium, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information, click here or call 212-308-7720.


April 30 and May 1 (all day) Crime Narratives in Modern Latin America: History, Journalism, Literature. Conference coordinated by Porfessors Lila Caimari, Pablo Piccato, and Anke Birkenmaier, at Columbia University. Panelists include Ana Gomes Porto (Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba), Edmundo Paz Soldán (Cornell University), and Wadda Rios Font (Barnard College), among others. Friday panels at Faculty House, Presidents Room 1 and 2, 64 Morningside Drive. Saturday panels at the International Affairs Building, Room 802, 420 West 118th Street, 8th Floor. For more information, send email to ba2131@columbia.edu

April 30 (1:00 - 2:30 pm) Writers and their Aliases. Bernardo Atxaga, Alina Bronsky, and Randa Jarrar will discuss identity and truth and how they settled on their own particular pseudonym. Co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. At the Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue. For more information, click here or call 212-334-1660, ext. 121.

April 30 (3:00 - 4:30 pm) Blogs, Twitter, and Kindle: The Future of Reading. Panel discussion with authors Ben Okri, Thomas Pletzinger, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Sergei Sokolovskiy. Moderated by Ben Schrank. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. At Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information, click here or call 212-308-7720.

April 30 (1:00 - 2:30 pm) This Critical Moment: A Journey - A National Book Critics Circle Conversation. Members of the National Book Critics Circle will discuss the work of Sherman Alexie, Quim Monzó, Peter Schneider, Martin Solares and Peter Stamm. Panelists include Eric Banks, Rigoberto Gonzáles, and Mary Ann Newman. Co-sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum and National Book Critics Circle. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. RSVP is required; to RSVP, please call ACF's reservation line at 212-319-5300, ext. 222. At the Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street. For more information, click here or please call 212-319-5300.

April 30 (5:30 pm) VII Encounter of Latin American and Spanish Authors: Contemporary Essay Writing in Spanish. Colloquium organized by the Delibes Chair at CUNY's Graduate Center and La Universidad de Vallaloid. Featuring authors Jésus Ferrero, María Negroni, Julio Ortega, Lourdes Ortiz, and Araceli Tinajero (moderator). At The Graduate Center-CUNY, Room 9204/9205, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street). For more information, click here or call 212-817-2096.

April 30 (5:30 pm) Marisol Espaillat at NoMAA. Author Marisol Espaillat presents her new book Strange Nights (Obsidiana Press, 2010), a compilation of short stories of diverse genres united by the bizarre and far-fetched. To RSVP, call 212-568-4396 or email info@nomaanyc.com. At NoMAA Gallery, 178 Bennett Avenue (at 189th Street), 3rd Floor. For more information, click here or call 212-233-8955.

April 30 (7:00 pm) Raúl Zurita at McNally Jackson. The SoHo bookstore and Penn Press - Plaquettes de Poesía present a bilingual reading of Raúl Zurita's Sueños para Kurosawa, with translator Anna Deeny. At McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street. For more information, call 212-274-1160.


May 1 (12:00 am - 6:00 pm) Union City Spring Art & Book Expo. At the Municipal Building, 3715 Palisade Avenue, Union City. For more information, click here or email bookpressny@gmail.com.


May 1 (12:30 - 2:00 pm) War and the Novel. With Bernardo Atxaga, Filip Florian, Assaf Gavron, and Atiq Rahimi; moderated by Susan Kuklin. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. Co-sponsored by The American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. At Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue. For more information, click here or call 212-879-9779.


May 1 (1:00 - 2:30 pm) Of Roots, Cliches, and the Imagination: Where Do We Write From? Join Rodrigo Fresán from Argentina, Martín Solares and Alberto Ruy-Sánchez from Mexico, and Miguel Syjuco from the Philippines, for a conversation about the mixed and surprising roots of writing, the clichés so often attached to Spanish-language writers, and the borderless force of the imagination. Moderated by Natasha Wimmer. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. At Instituto Cervantes, Auditorium, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information, click here or call 212-308-7720.

May 1 (3:00 - 4:00 pm) Miguel Syjuco and Nicholas Jose at Instituto Cervantes. Phillipine-born author Miguel Syjuco joins his former teacher at Adelaide University, Nicholas Jose, now head of Australian Studies at Harvard, to talk about fatherhood, regret, revolution, and the mysteries of lives lived and abandoned. At Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information, click here or call 212-308-7720.

May 1 (3:00 - 5:00 pm) Raúl Zurita at NoMAA. Poetry reading by Raúl Zurita; etchings by Mexican artist Valerie Mejer. To RSVP, call 212-568-4396 or email info@nomaanyc.com. At the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Gallery, 178 Bennett Avenue (at 189th Street), 3rd Floor. For more information, click here or call 212-233-8955.

May 1 (4:30 - 5:00 pm) A Conversation with Javier Cercas. Join Spanish writer Javier Cercas and Amanda Vaill for a conversation about the Spanish Civil War and the role of fiction in rendering the complexity of the past. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. At Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information, click here or call 212-308-7720.

May 1 (5:00 pm) Isabel Allende at El Museo del Barrio. Vintage Español, El Museo del Barrio and the Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York invite you to a conversation between journalist and writer Gina Montaner and novelist Isabel Allende. The conversation will be conducted in Spanish; no translation available. Free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please RSVP by sending email to www.elmuseo.org/calendar. In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes, Pro Chile, Puro Chile and The Hispanic New York Project. At El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Ave. (btwn. 104th and 105th Streets). For further information, call 212-572-2366.

May 1 (6:00 - 8:00 pm) Poetry Reading and Reception at the Grand Gallery. With Homero Aridjis, Ariel Dorfman, Cathy Park Hong, Inga Kuznetsova, and Marlene van Niekerk. Tickets are $5; free for PSA and PEN members. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. At the Grand Gallery, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park. For more information, click here or call 212-475-3424.

May 1 (10:00 pm - 12:00 am) Capicu Show Returns to Urban Latino Radio. Hosted by Urban Jibaro, La Chica Que Pica and The Guy, The Capicu Show promises to keep listeners captivated with the latest in news and information about cultural events and items of interest in the Latino community. To hear the show, click here.

May 2 (12:00 - 2:00 pm) Magdalena Gómez at Acentos Writers Workshop. The acclaimed hands-on writing series organized by Acentos Foundation welcomes Magdalena Gomez. RSVP is required by sending an email to fish@louderarts.com. Please bring proper identification to the event. At the Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, Room A-329, 475 Grand Concourse, Bronx. For more information, click here or call 917-209-4211.

May 2 (1:00 - 2:30 pm) The Writer as Activist. Panel discussion with Homero Aridjis, Ariel Dorfman, and Irakli Kakabadze; moderated by Sarah Schulman. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. At powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn. For more information, click here or call 718-666-3049.

May 2 (2:30 - 4:00 pm) Two Worlds. Panel discussion with Eduardo Lago, Anne Landsman, José Manuel Prieto, and Salman Rushdie; moderated by Adam Gopnik. Tickets are $15; $10 for Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and PEN members. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival. At the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place. For more information or to buy tickets, click here or call 646-437-4200.


May 3 (4:00 pm) The Mexican Detective Novel: A Conversation with Martin Solares. With Martin Solares, editor and narrator of Los Minutos Negros (Vintage Press, 2010), Horacio Castellanos Moya, Oswaldo Zavala, and Araceli Tinajero (moderator). In Spanish, with registration at  mexicostudy@gc.cuny.edu. At the Graduate Center, Room 9204, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street). For more information, click here or call 212-817-1540.

May 4 (4:30 - 6:30 pm) Open Space for Youth at El Museo del Barrio. The Peace Poets Collective facilitates a weekly interactive and dynamic program for teenagers from El Barrio and around the city to create their own safe space and feel como en casa. Group meets every Tuesday at El Museo del Barrio's El Taller, 1230 Fifth Avenue. For more information, click here or call 212-831-7272.


May 4 (6:30 pm) The Jewish Presence in Contemporary Catalan Literature. Lecture by poet and scholar Manuel Forcano. Part of the American Sephardi Federation/Sephardic House lecture series, "The Jews of Spain: Past, Present, and Future" and its companion exhibition “Jerusalem and the Jews of Spain: Longing and Reality.” In collaboration with the American Sephardi Federation. At the King Juan Carlos Center at NYU, 53 Washington Square South. For more information, click here or call the Catalan Center at NYU at 212 -998-8255.

May 5 (6:00 pm) Edith Grossman at the Queen Sophia Spanish Institute. Distinguished translator and critic Dr. Edith Grossman will discuss her latest book, Luis de Góngora: Solitudes, with special commentary by Golden Age specialist Lía Schwartz. Please R.S.V.P. to 212-628-0420 or rsvp@queensofiasi.org. At the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, 684 Park Avenue. For more information, click here or call 212-628-0420.

May 6 (6:00 pm) Moorish Spain in the United States. Lecture by Richard Kagan. R.S.V.P. to 212-628-0420 or rsvp@queensofiasi.org. At the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, 684 Park Avenue. For more information, click here or call 212-628-0420.

May 6 (7:00 pm) The Beats and Mexico at Americas Society. Panel discussion on fascination that the Beat writers had with Mexico.. With Joyce Johnson, John Tytell, and Regina Weinreich. Co-sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and InterAmericas. At Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue (at 68th Street). For more information or to buy tickets, click here or call 212-249-8950.

May 6 (7:00 pm) Creative Writing in Spanish Series at the King Juan Carlos. Peruvian poet Mariela Dreyfus has organized this evening´s creative writing session. In Spanish, with reception to follow. At the King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South. For more information, call 212-998-3650.
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