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Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory is a textual cabinet of curiosities The memoir, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, asks: do we know the people of the past, or do we merely seek to appropriate them? By Natasha Randall Some books are like museums. They offer an architecture but let you wander. Chapters, like gallery rooms, are adjacent and suggestive of order, but they read like a series of collections. I n Memory of Memory is such a book, a repository of cultural artefacts, curated so that you will ask: how does memory inhabit these objects? In its pages, we find the contents of a lost wallet; love letters from a hospital bed; prenuptial agreements in Hebrew; stories about mistaken identity; and a generous sampling of the literature on memory. ....
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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., host ....