http://brooklynrail.org/images/rail-logotype.png http://brooklynrail.org brooklynrail.org rss feed http://brooklynrail.org Arts and Culture Copyright (c) 2005-2012, The Brooklyn Rail http://www.centerforfiction.org/calendar/the-brooklyn-rail Brooklyn Rail Event #70
THE MAY ISSUE
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm

The Center for Fiction // 17 E. 47th St., NY NY

Join us for an evening of readings from Rail fiction contributors, with a spotlight on translation. Harry Morales will read from his translation of Mario Benedetti's novel La Tregua. Donald Nicholson-Smith will present excerpts from his translation of Raoul Vaneigem's Traite de savoir-vivre a l'usage des jeuenes generations, currently serialized in the Rail. Pamela Ryder will present some of her recent fiction. Hosted by Rail fiction editor Donald Breckenridge. Translator Harry Morales is also the author of the novel The Suit and Skirt Farm (Xlibris, 2002). He has translated the work of Uruguayan poet and novelist Mario Benedetti, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Juan Rulfo, Cristina Peri Rossi, Julia de Burgos, Alberto Ruy-Sanchez, and Ilan Stavans, among many others. Mario Benedetti was born on September 14, 1920 in Uruguay. In 1953, he published his first novel Quien de Nosotros, but it was with the publication of Montevideanos: Cuentos (Stories) in 1959 that the urban concept of his narrative style took shape. With the publication of La Tregua in 1960, Benedetti acquired international prominence. He passed away on May 17, 2009. Translator Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of Brooklyn who has translated Guy Debord, Henfri Lefebvre, Guillaume Apollinaire, Raoul Vaneigem, and Jean-Patrick Manchette. Raoul Vaneigem was born in Lessines, Belgium in 1934. A leading light in the Situationist International in the late 1960s, he is a prolific writer and a relentless critic of late capitalism. His Traite de savoir-vivre a l'usage des jeuenes generations, known in English as The Revolution of Everyday Life, was written during the Cold War in 1963-65. It is one of two influential books, the other being Debord's Society of the Spectacle, published by SI just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France. Pamela Ryder is the author of Correction of Drift: A Novel in Stories (Fiction Collective 2, 2008) a novel about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping which Gordon Lish has called "a ghostly book [...] inconsolabl[y] haunting," and a new collection, A Tendency to Be Gone (Dzanc Books, 2011). Donald Breckenridge is the author of more than a dozen plays as well as the novella Rockaway Wherein (Red Dust, 1998), and the novels 6/2/95 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002), You Are Here (Starcherone, 2009), and This Young Girl Passing (Autonomedia, 2011). Fiction editor of the Rail, he is also the co-editor of the InTranslation website, and editor of the Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology (Hanging Loose Press, 2006) and the forthcoming Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology 2 (Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions, 2012). He is currently at work on his fourth novel.

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Paul Kos, a conceptual artist who has helped create the vocabulary for video, performance, and conceptual art in the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1960s, walked Jarrett Earnest through the three floors of his exhibit at Nyehaus, Allegories and Metaphors, 1969 – 2012 (March 3 – April 21), and talked about the evolution of his art.

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