New Literature from Europe: The Writer in the City
If you ever wondered what an American author touring in Europe sounded like, you can derive a sense of it from two events in NYC this week, wherein the foreign language writer reads a little bit him/herself, and then has a chunk performed by an actor (which is how they do it "abroad"). I came across these events in part because I'd the pleasure of meeting one participant—Germany's leading queer theorist Thomas Meinecke (as in the muffler, sort of)—last month, and the pleasure of hearing about a great urban theorist named Bruce Begout from his cool French indie publisher Max Milo. The fact that both of them were in fact doing these two events together, well I just had to alert folks. Below is the details, forgive the cut-'n'-paste from the German, I think y'all can figure it out...
19. Oktober 2006
19:00 Uhr
New Literature from Europe: The Writer in the City
Lesung aus „Hellblau“ und Diskussion an The New School
Theresa Lang Center
The New School
55 W. 13th St., 2nd Floor
New York, NY
21. Oktober 2006
19:00 Uhr
New Writers from Europe
Lesung aus “Tomboy” in der Buchhandlung “192 Books”
Adresse:
192 Books
192 Tenth Ave./21st St.
New York, NY 10011
tel.: 212-255-4022