For the first installment of “Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations,” the Jordan Center will host Nastya Denisova, Kit Eginton, Anna Glazova, and Alex Niemi. This April, the Jordan Center will host 6 contemporary Russian poets for a series of readings and conversations. With a view to the recent anthology F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (isolarii, 2020), this…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between writer and translator Susan Bernofsky and poet and writer Eileen Myles about Bernofsky's “Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser,“ the first English-language biography of Swiss author Robert Walser. In their conversation, Myles and Bernofsky will reflect on Walser's intriguing work and life, problems of…
Chantal Thomas is a novelist, screenwriter and essayist. Farewell to the Queen was her first great success for which she won the Femina Prize in 2002. She is an 18th century specialist, notably Sade and Casanova. She has just been elected to the French Academy. She will talk about her last three books: East Village Blues (Seuil 2019), Café Vivre (Seuil 2020) and De Sable et de neige (Mercure de France…