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The Rise of Virtual Foreign Author Tours

The Rise of Virtual Foreign Author Tours By Ed Nawotka | May 07, 2021 One of the unintended consequences of the pandemic and the shift to virtual author events is that booksellers and publishers have had the opportunity to put together events for overseas authors who would not usually tour the U.S. “The possibilities are endless,” said Pierce Alquist, director of the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Mass. “The pairings and creative panels we have done are once-in-a-lifetime events.” She cited a virtual event in February during which Russian author Maria Stepanova discussed her book In Memory of Memory (New Directions): Alquist, who ran the event, was in Boston; Stepanova was in Moscow; her translator, Sasha Dugdale, was in the U.K.; and the moderator, Elif Batuman, was in Brooklyn. In another far-flung example, for an Earth Day event in April, Point Reyes Bookstore in Point Reyes, Calif., hosted a talk with Ice

1st Pittsburgh International Literary Festival to get people talking and reading

The Pittsburgh International Literary Festival, known as “LitFest,” hopes to get people talking through reading. Hosted by the City of Asylum @ Alphabet City based on Pittsburgh’s North Side, the virtual event will feature authors from all over the world discussing topics that encompass Black, Indigenous and all people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community and the politics of publishing. Abby Lembersky, director of programs for City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, said planning’s been underway since January. This isn’t the only online happening but it is the first 10-day festival the organization done. It will be held May 12-18 on the organization’s virtual programming channel.

Pittsburgh s Inaugural Literary Festival Celebrates Creative Free Expression

Pittsburgh’s Inaugural Literary Festival Celebrates Creative Free Expression City of Asylum will host International LitFest, a 10-day series of events featuring more than 30 speakers, including Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners. April 29, 2021 NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OLGA TOKARCZUK | PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK City of Asylum is gearing up to host Pittsburgh’s first-ever International Literary Festival, (LitFest). This 10-day event will start on Wednesday, May 12 and bring together authors from around the world to discuss themes of migration, displacement and identity in contemporary literature.  The festival will take place in live and virtual formats, but every live program will have virtual coverage in order to provide global access to the panels. 

Landscapes, Hermits and Storytelling: An Interview with Federico Falco, Author of A Perfect Cemetery

Landscapes, Hermits and Storytelling: An Interview with Federico Falco, Author of A Perfect Cemetery
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A Perfect Cemetery by Federico Falco: Short Stories about Community and Isolation in Rural Argentina

  ‘A Perfect Cemetery’ by Federico Falco: Short Stories about Community and Isolation in Rural Argentina By Will Huddleston | 07 April, 2021 According the writer G.K. Chesterton, “the man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world”, a point which ought to be remembered throughout A Perfect Cemetery, the fourth collection of short stories from Federico Falco. The Argentinian – who also has a novel and book of poems to his name – places his characters far from the madding crowd, scattered in tiny hamlets and small towns across his native Córdoba. In these little worlds, Falco poses big questions, inviting us to consider the various meanings of community, the effects of solitude and insularity, and the bonds we form with the natural world.

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