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Pierre Bayard in Conversation with François Noudelmann

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Pierre Bayard is best known to the general public for his essay "How to speak about books that we have not read?" (2007) where he criticizes the received idea that there is a clear border between reading and non-reading, and invites the reader to build a freer, less complex relationship with the literary text.

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Labor in the Amazon Era: Heike Geissler in Conversation with Stephen Squibb

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

German novelist Heike Geissler will discuss Seasonal Associate, a literary account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center, with critic and author Stephen Squibb. In Seasonal Associate, Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig when she is no longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income. But the job, intended…