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11:00–12:00
Virtual Forum
Moderated by Esther Allen
Where: www.wordswithoutborders.org
12:00–1:30
Conversation: Bei Dao and Shan Sa with Gish Jen
Where: Strand Book Store (Rare Book Room): 828 Broadway
Co-sponsored by the Strand Book Store
Free
2:00–4:00
The Post-National Writer
Lilian Faschinger, Francisco Goldman, Jose Manuel Prieto, Yuri Rytkheu, Salman Rushdie, Yoko Tawada, Eliot Weinberger, Adam Zagajewski
Literary
writers work as individuals, expressing an individual and entirely
unique perspective; much great literature is about the clash between
the individual and the collective. Nevertheless, we seem perpetually
unable to keep from reading writers as representatives of their
nations. The writers assembled for this panel each test the limits of
nationalist definitions of literature in his or her own way, and they
will discuss the issues of identity and nationalism they confront in
their work and their lives.
Where: The New School: 66 West 12th St.
Co-sponsored by The New School Graduate Writing Program and internationales literaturfestival berlin
Free
4:00–6:00
Voices from the New Europe
Rafael Chirbes, Victor Erofeyev, Andrei Makine, Cees Nooteboom; moderated by James Miller
Europe
has undergone significant transformations since the so-called “Eastern
enlargement,” in which 10 additional member states entered the European
Union last year. Both Eastern and Western Europe are experiencing
struggles of national identity, currently most apparent in the Ukraine.
Literature plays a part in these processes, the precise shape of which
remains to be seen. This panel focuses on the author’s role and
responsibility in reshaping Europe and redefining its national
identities; it poses the question of the writer’s commitment today. In
the face of the overpowering cultural influence of television and other
visual media, do writers have an actual chance of making their voices
heard?
Where: The New School: 66 West 12th St.
Co-sponsored by The New School Graduate Writing Program and internationales literaturfestival berlin
Free
6:00–7:00
“Strange Times, My Dear”: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature
Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, Nassim Khaksar, Nahid Mozaffari, Azar Nafisi, Shahrnush Parsipur, Niloufar Talebi, Goli Taraghi, Sholeh Wolpe
Azar
Nafisi joins editors Nahid Mozaffari and Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, and
publisher Richard Seaver, in presenting selections of contemporary
Iranian poetry and fiction in celebration of the Anthology’s
publication. This book was published despite U.S. Treasury Department
regulations restricting the publication of materials from countries
under United States trade embargo.
Where: The New School: 66 West 12th St.
Co-sponsored
by The New School Graduate Writing Program and The International
Freedom to Publish Committee of the Association of American Publishers,
and Persian Cultural Foundation
Free
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7:00–9:00
The Way We Love Now
Antoine Audouard, Hanif Kureishi, Natsuo Kirino, Meir Shalev, Elif Shafak, Peter Stamm; moderated by Wayne Koestenbaum
Eroticism,
intimacy, amorousness: how does “sex”—that ancient game—function in the
contemporary world? What new or old paradigms dominate modern love?
How, in our different cultures and social contexts, does eroticism
bewilder, enchain, and embolden its practitioners and victims?
Love—Circean and protean—may acquire new forms in a new age, and
threaten to become unrecognizable. These novelists, who have written
eloquently about love’s trials, will speak to the roles eroticism plays
in their works and in their worlds.
Where: The New School: 66 West 12th St.
Co-sponsored by The New School Graduate Writing Program and internationales literaturfestival berlin
Ticketing: $10, free for New School students and faculty. For more info: (212) 229-5488
This event is free for Festival Pass holders.
7:00
Durs Grünbein and Uwe Timm: New Translations
Reading in German with selections in English from Ashes for Breakfast and In My Brother’s Shadow,
read by Michael Hofmann and Ayesha Pande; in cooperation with Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of
Germany, and the German Book Office.
Where: Goethe-Institut New York: 1014 Fifth Avenue
Free
9:00–10:30
UniVerse: World Literary Voices
Fadhil al-Azzawi, Bei Dao, Breyten Breytenbach, Martín Espada, John Godfrey, Joan Margarit Consarnau, Dunya Mikhail, Elena Poniatowska, Elif Shafak
Where: St. Mark’s Church: 131 East 10th St.
Co-sponsored by Rattapallax and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
Free
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