Join acclaimed Austrian author Josef Winkler and special guests at this unique literary-musical event. Winkler will read from his work in German and his translator Adrian West will read the corresponding texts in English. Fulya Peker will perform one of her Modern Mythologies, a performance based on Winkler’s Natura Morta.

Find out more event information here. Read a series of excepts from Winkler’s novel Graveyard of Bitter Oranges here.

ISSUE Project Room and New Directions present an evening of anecdotes and admiration celebrating the life and work of author Muriel Spark, featuring New Directions President and Publisher Barbara Epler, New York Times columnist Maud Newton, Paris Review Contributing Editor Sadie Stein, T Magazine Senior Editor Emily Stokes and Vogue.com Culture Editor Thessaly LaForce. New Directions’ Publicity Director and Associate Editor Michael Barron moderates.

The writer Muriel Spark has been lauded for writing “some of the best sentences in the English” (The New Yorker) and for being “The most original and brilliant British novelist” (The New York Review of Books). This month, Spark’s longtime publisher New Directions will shining the limelight on her amazing body of work by publishing the first ever collection of her essays, The Informed Air, as well as reissuing eight of her novels.

More information can be found here.

Translation can be dangerous and subversive from a literary perspective. It can also take on a political or ideological dimension. Two translators of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses were attacked, one fatally, while the Turkish translator and publisher of William S. Burroughs’s The Soft Machine were put on trial. In other far less visible cases, translations have been suppressed for the voices and ideas they convey, and not for any lack of literary or cultural merit.

Join Paris Review poetry editor Robyn Creswell and translators Bonnie Huie and Sara Khalili for a discussion on texts they’ve translated that are considered blasphemous, obscene, or otherwise dangerous to offer their views on the place where art meets politics.

More information on the panel can be found here.

Scandinavian author Karl Ove Knausgaard dissects the latest edition of his multi-volume autobiography, My Struggle, and the controversy and critical acclaim that surrounds it with The Virgin Suicides author Jeffrey Eugenides.

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Read an interview with Knausgaard here. Read an interview with Eugenides here.

A writer whose work defies easy categorization, Geoff Dyer recounts tales from Another Great Day at Sea, his new book on the complexities of life on board a U.S. aircraft carrier.

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