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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie will read from the recently published Flight, 'a funny, irreverent, sardonic but sentimental, rebellious voice set beside his elder contemporaries... Alexie is the bad boy among them, mocking, self-mocking, unpredictable, unassimilable, reminding us of the young Philip Roth.' (Joyce Carol Oates) and from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ( National Book Award) 'When my horoscope said I was going to meet someone tall, dark and handsome... who knew he'd be14! Thankfully for me Arnold Spirit is one of the funniest, most endearing characters I've met in a very long time. This book is so original, I laughed consistently from beginning to end.' (Amy Sedaris) Sherman Alexie is the acclaimed author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, The Toughest Indian in the World, Ten Little Indians and will be introduced by his French publisher Francis Geffard. |
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Avi Shlaim
On the occasion of his participation in the celebrations of Israel's 60th Birthday Avi Shlaim will discuss his work The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. 'Anyone wanting to understand the modern Middle East should start by reading this elegantly written and scrupulously researched book.' (Sunday Herald) 'A milestone in modern scholarship of the Middle East.' (Edward Said) |
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Nina L. Khrushcheva
Nina L.Khrushcheva discusses her work Imagining Nabokov: Russia between Art and Politics. 'Combining literary criticism with political theory is often attempted and rarely done well. Nina Khurshcheva succeeds brilliantly in this highly original work. Her book deepens one's knowledge of Nabokov, Russia, and the condition of exile by mixing literary and political concerns without diminishing the importance of interest of either.' (Ian Buruma) In Imagining Nabokov Nina Khrushcheva successfully creates a bridge between the Western 'privacy' and the Russian 'cosmology'. Indeed, bridging the two was Nabokov's own most important preoccupation.' (Tatyana Tolstaya) |
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Claude Vigée
Claude Vigee will read poems from the new collection Les Chants de l'Absence in French, and Anthony Rudolf will read them in translation from Songs of Absence. The distinguished French poet, Claude Vigée, wrote a number of poems in verse and prose following the death of his wife Evelyne in January 2007. First cousins, they had been married for sixty years. These powerful and moving poems (along with brief extras from his diaries) are published in this bilingual edition for the first time. |
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Julia Wright
Julia Wright discusses A Father's Law, the last novel written by her father Richard Wright, and posthumously published in 2008 by HarperCollins US to mark the centennial of his birthday. |
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
Homage to Grace Paley
with
Denis Hirson
Nancy Huston
Ellen Hinsey
Paule Levy
Noelle Batt
and many others
Grace Paley's two posthumously published books are Fidelity: Poems and Here and Somewhere Else: Stories & Poems
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Alexander Lobrano
France Today, The Magazine of French Culture and Travel invites Alexander Lobrano to present his new guide Hungry for Paris, the ultimate guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants. If you're passionate about eating well during your next trip to Paris, you couldn't ask for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobrano's charming, friendly, and authoritative Hungry for Paris, the first new comprehensive guide in many years to the city's restaurant scene. Lobrano, Gourmet magazine's European correspondent, has written for almost every major food and travel magazine since he became an American in Paris in 1986. Here he shares his personal selection of the city's 102 best restaurants, each of which is portrayed in savvy, fun, lively descriptions that are not only indispensable for finding a superb meal but a pleasure to read. Lobrano reveals the hottest young chefs, the coziest bistros, the best buys—including those haute cuisine restaurants that are really worth the money—and the secret places Parisians love most, together with information on the most delicious dishes, ambience, clientele, and history of each restaurant. A series of delightful essays cover various aspects of dining in Paris, including "Table for One" (how to eat alone), "The Four Seasons" (the best of seasonal eating in Paris), and "Eating the Unspeakable" (learning to eat what you don't think you like). All restaurants are keyed to helpful maps, and the book is seasoned with beautiful photographs by Life magazine photographer Bob Peterson that will only help whet your appetite for tasting Paris. |
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom discusses her latest novel Away. Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York's Lower East Side, to Seattle's Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom's work—her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart—come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic,and completely unforgettable. |
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