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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Gary Snyder in New York
This autumn Counterpoint Press, heir of the beat- and Japanese-inflected North Point Press of Berkeley, founded by Jack Shoemaker in 1980, brings back Gary Snyder’s Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems in a lovely reissue, as well as a twentieth anniversary edition of Snyder’s summative The Practice of the Wild, with a new introduction by the [...]
Writers: Gary Snyder
Susan Sontag at Scandinavia House, Friday
Scandinavia House this week will host a series of events springing from the still-bright energies left to us by Susan Sontag. First, on Friday from 3:30 to 4:30 there will be a seminar on the challenges of literary translation, with Sontag Translation Prize winner Benjamin Mier-Cruz, Sontag’s son and literary executor David Rieff, Susan Bernofsky, [...]
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Tagged Benjamin Mier-Cruz, Elmer Diktonius, film, Juan José Saer, Roanne Sharp, Susan Sontag, translation
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“The Grand Lady of My Soul,” by Goli Taraghi
Translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé This week Little Star is thrilled inaugurate our Cultural Center of Our Own series by bringing you this enchanted story by Goli Taraghi, one of the first women writers to be published and celebrated in modern Iran. The story appears in the forthcoming Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes [...]
Writers: Goli Taraghi
Words Without Borders, an appreciation
Words Without Borders is a grandly ambitious project bringing international writing to American audiences. They publish an online monthly journal homing in on a language or culture or theme somewhere in the world, as well as expansive anthologies and curricula
Looking for More? Other new writing from the Muslim world
In addition to Tablet & Pen, featured in Little Star this week, there are suddenly lots of opportunities to sample writing old and new from the Muslim world in English, such as Beirut 39: New Writing From The Arab World, edited by Samuel Shimon for the Hay Festival in Wales, with an introduction by a [...]