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Literary Translation Clinics

How Do We Imagine the Future of Translator Collectives?

Aaron Robertson and Sean Gasper Bye consider existing and potential models of literary translation collectives

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How Do We Create a Philosophy of Translation?

Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT May 20, 2021

Brazilian literature translator Katrina Dodson will discuss how translators build their own constantly evolving philosophies...

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Moms Make Time to Read with Zibby Owens

Zibby Owens, host of the hit podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, joined her mother Ellen Katz...

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Imbolo Mbue Launches How Beautiful We Were with David Ebershoff

Tuesday, 7:30 pm EDT March 9, 2021

Join us to celebrate the launch of Imbolo Mbue’s highly anticipated second novel How Beautiful We Were

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Olivia Laing on Everybody with Maggie Nelson

Thursday, 1:00 pm EDT May 6, 2021

Analyzing some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century through the lens of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, author Olivia...

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Bookstore Picks

Words of Love, Love of Words

This weekend is both Valentine’s Day and the long Presidents’ Day holiday, a good time to settle in with loved ones to read some romantic...

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Walking with Ghosts with Gabriel Byrne and Lily King

Actor Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, End of Days, In Treatment) was joined by award-winning author...

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Memoirs of a Fiction Writer: Courtney Zoffness and Gina Frangello in Conversation

Tuesday, 7:30 pm EDT May 11, 2021

For authors Courtney Zoffness (The Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow) and Gina Frangello (A Life...

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Story/Teller

Story/Teller: We Run the Tides with Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits and Marin Ireland

Award-winning actor Marin Ireland performed a dramatic reading of the first chapter from Vendela Vida’s...

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Feasts for February

The advent of Black History Month seems an ideal time to highlight Amanda Gorman, whose astonishing performance stunned viewers at President Biden’s...