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When: Friday, May 2
Where: Scandinavia House: 58 Park Ave.
What time: 2:30–4 p.m.
With Etgar Keret, Young-ha Kim, Ingo Schulze, and Abdourahman Waberi; moderated by Radhika Jones
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Cosponsored by The American-Scandinavian Foundation and The Paris Review
Four international writers discuss short fiction—why they write it, how the form appeals to them, where they see it going, and its differences across international borders in terms of reception and history. This panel will include brief readings.
From the PEN Blogs
• Aaron Hamburger
This panel, moderated by Radhika Jones of the Paris Review, featured four international short story writers talking about their experiences and commitment to a form, the reports of whose death have been greatly exaggerated. [More]
• Molly McQuade
I've never understood the obedience of many American fiction writers. For it is they who, after all, have "gone to school," and never quite left...[More]
• Michele Zackheim
There were three men reading contemporary stories about young males and one woman reading about two old dead women. [More]
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