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German Writer Thomas Brussig with Jonathan Franzen

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Thomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall. Translator and author Jonathan Franzen, who also provides the foreword for this book, says that it’s “a reminder that, even […]

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Fête de Colette: The Intimate Worlds of Colette

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Translator Paul Eprile in conversation with biographer Judith Thurman, moderated by writer and poet Zack Rogow An online panel of internationally renowned translators and biographers discuss Colette's recently reprinted classic novels, Cheri and The End of Cheri. Cosponsored by The New York Review of Books and City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.