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| Monday, May 5, 2008 9:57AM | | | | View-Masters of The Universe | Tags: Jo Nesbo, Christian Jungerson, Haalfdan Freihow, Kristin Omarsdottir, Islandic Writers, Scandinavian Writers, View-Masters, Rick Moody, The Believer
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I was really looking forward to the Believer Magazine Event. I like The Believer and the people who run it. I was also pleased to be back on the lower west side of Manhattan, where things are a little bit realer.
I got there really early, but alas, no party. I just got to stand in line with about twenty other people who were concerned that the event would sell out. This concern was justified, after all, the event was advertised as featuring a 3-D View-Master presentation. I was all in.
The M.C., Michael Ian Black, was sort... | | | | | | | Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:05PM | | | | Four Visions of Yasmina Khadra | Tags: New World Voices, The Believer, Salman Rushdie, Dave Eggers, Yasmina Khadra, Colin Harrison, Niccolo Amminiti, Heidi Julavits, Uzodinma Iweala, Isobel Hoving, Miranda July, Eric Bogosian
| | | | Friday night onstage in the exquisite wood-paneled auditorium at The Morgan Library, New York Noir novelist and Scribner editor Colin Harrison asks a question of Mohammad Moulessehoul, the expatriate Algerian soldier who under the pseudonym Yasmina Khadra is a best-selling author in France, honored with the 2001 Medaille d'Or de l'Academie Francaise and the 2006 Prix des Libraires.
Harrison, filling in as PEN World Voices Festival "Mediterranean Noir" moderator for Alice Sebold, who broke her leg, has neatly set up the evening but quoting Jean-Claude Izzo, who in his essay, "The Blue and the Black," writes that the Mediterranean gave the world the first noir books (Cain and Abel in the Bible, the Greek tragedies) as well as Camus's "The Stranger," which Izzo calls the... | | | | | | | Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:13AM | | | | Pissing and Moaning | Tags: Iran, Africa, Believer, Humor, falafel, censorship, self-promotion
| | | | Barnaby Sandwich has been kept up several nights running by what sounds like an orgy of rats in his sheet rock; and he recently learned the hard way that sauerkraut and sour cream do not mix; but despite sleeplessness and a stomach amok, he has pressed his way through half a dozen more PEN events, among them “Every Day in Africa,” “Voices from Today’s Iran,” “Humor Out of Context,” and “A Believer Nighttime Event.” The good people of PEN have worked hard to assemble a massive and impressive festival of dozens of events and hundreds of people, that must necessarily bridge a variety of tastes and sensibilities; and the same good people have been known, not incidentally, to stand Barnaby to a bowl of... | | | | | |
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