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April 24th 2012

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Damion Searls
AMSTERDAM STORIES 
(NYRB, 2012)
Tuesday, April 24, 7PM 


Translator Damion Searls will read from and discuss his English translation of Amsterdam Stories.

Amsterdam Stories is the first English-language translation of the Dutch writer Nescio, a writer whose growing reputation and cult readership have marked him as a figure in world literature. Nescio’s stories are inhabited by wastrels and charmers, the young and the no-longer-young, the bourgeois and the bohemian. He is a great stylist, capturing the mercantile city of Amsterdam and its bucolic surrounding countryside with equal vitality. 

Damion Searls is a writer and a translator of many classic twentieth-century authors, including Proust, Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Thomas Bernhard. 

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April 23rd 2012

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Nathan Englander + Kathryn Harrison + Peter Carey + Tom Sleigh

“I don’t want to write any story that I think can be written,” author Nathan Englander recently told Granta magazine. “The challenge and fun of writing stories is engaging with something that seems impossible to execute, so that even I don’t know how it’s going to turn out.” So how did the stories of his new collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, turn out? Hear for yourself tonight at Hunter College’s MFA Faculty Reading, a celebration of new work from the school’s talented teaching staff. The evening also includes Peter Carey, reading from The Chemistry of Tears (not yet published in the U.S.); Kathryn Harrison, reading from the soon-to-be-published Enchantments; and poet Tom Sleigh, reading from Army Cats, which was recently excerpted in The New Yorker. — By Angela Ashman

Price: free, rsvp required

6:30 p.m. April 23

Hunter College

68th St.
New York, NY 10021

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April 13th 2012

Udi Aloni & Slavoj Zizek @ Joe’s Pub

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Joe’s Pub
Sunday, April 15th at 9:30PM
Tickets are $15

Udi Aloni with Slavoj Zizek: What does a Jew want?
On Theory, Art and Action

What Does a Jew Want? is a remarkable series of visual Midrash presenting philosophy, video art, story-telling, and performance. The event portrays theological political fragments of a “split Jew” through the eyes of an outrageous philosopher and an obscure artist. The talented actress, Hani Furstenberg, will be an eminent part of this event.

Hani Furstenberg is one of the most preeminent actresses in Israel. She has starred in television series and fiction films, including CAMPFIRE by Joseph Cedar, for which she won the Israeli Oscar. As cast member in Israel’s prestigious theater The Cameri, her roles have included Ophelia in HAMLET, Constanze in AMADEUS, and Hodel in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. She received the Israeli Tony Award in 2010 for GHETTO, as well as the Most Promising Young Actress award given by the city of Tel Aviv. Hani was born and raised in New York. In her first American leading role, she stars opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in THE LONELIEST PLANET by Julia Loktev, due to be released this summer

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His is one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary thinking. His books include “First as Tragedy, Then as Farce;” “In Defense of Lost Causes;” “Living in the End Times;” and many more. His recent book is Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, (Verso2012)
Udi Aloni is a writer, artist and filmmaker whose work explores the discourse between art, theory, and action. Among his films are Kashmir: Journey to Freedom (2009), Forgiveness (2006), and Local Angel (2003). His recent book: What does a Jew want? On Binationalism and Other Specters (2011 Columbia University Press)

Last fall The Public Theater presented his Arabic adaptation of Waiting for Godot.
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“Slavoj Zizek is the most dangerous philosopher in the West.”
-Adam Kirsch of The New Republic

“Aloni’s secular theology is definitely one of the most fascinating innovations of our time. So if you want to dwell in your blessed secular ignorance…then do not come to this event – at your own risk”
-Slavoj Zizek

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