Join us at Borough Hall on 9/29 for the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival! Find Deep Vellum & Dalkey Archive Press authors Mircea Cărtărescu, Andrés Neuman, and Jáchym Topol on panels (including one moderated by our own Will Evans), and catch us at the Literary Marketplace—we’ll be slinging books at booth 310-311, with our friends at Open Letter.
Archives of the Self
Borough Hall Courtroom, 209 Joralemon St.
Sunday 9/29, 5:00p
In what ways does reckoning with our personal and political histories and archives allow us to reckon with ourselves? New works by Iman Mersal (Traces of Enayat, trans Robin Moger), Daniel Saldaña Paris (Planes Flying Over a Monster, trans Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman), Kateřina Tučková (The Last Goddess, trans Andrew Oakland), and Mircea Cărtărescu (Solenoid, trans Sean Cotter), recover figures made invisible by popular history, assess the ways literature and landscape have transformed their lives, and invite the multiverse into the archive, breaking new ground for autobiographical and historical writing. Moderated by Will Evans, Publisher of Deep Vellum Publishing.
The Great Bolaño / El Gran Bolaño
Virtual
Sunday 9/22, 1:00p
Join novelists Francisco Goldman and Andrés Neuman for a virtual discussion about the life, literature, and legacy of Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003). Author of The Savage Detectives, 2666, and By Night in Chile, among many other notable works, Roberto Bolaño is widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation.
The event will be moderated by Samuel Rutter, International Literature Editor at the LARB. Co-hosted by Picador and Word Up Community Bookshop.
**English presentation with simultaneous Spanish-language interpretation.**
Na Zdraví! A Night of Czech Books & Beer
Friday 9/27, 7:00p
Join Czech authors from a variety of literary styles to celebrate their books & enjoy Czech-style beers at Wild East Brewing. Featuring Petra Hůlová, Patrik Banga, and Milan Děžinský, along with guests Kateřina Tučková, Jáchym Topol, and Vojtěch Mašek, the night will include short readings, “guess the author” and “that’s untranslatable” games. From 1990s Prague to a carnivalesque novel, deep image poetry to absurdist humor, healing women to feminist dystopias, these writers offer a brilliant taste of all Czech literature has to offer. Special drink tickets for the first 25 attendees.