WWB/RTW Book Club: Zbigniew Herbert
The latest Words Without Borders/Reading the World book club is now officially underway. This month James Marcus and Cynthia Haven will be leading a discussion of Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems. They have a lot of interesting things lined up for the next few weeks: The discussion will include contributions from ...
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More on the January WWB Book Club
At House of Mirth James Marcus offers a preview of the upcoming Words Without Borders discussion of Zbigniew Herbert’s The Collected Poems 1956-1998, which promises to be quite interesting. Next week, Cynthia Haven and I will be overseeing a Words Without Borders book club—an online conversation, more or ...
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Aldo Buzzi
James Marcus at House of Mirth has a great post celebrating Aldo Buzzi’s 97th birthday. Buzzi is the author of Journey to the Land of the Flies, A Weakness for Almost Everything, and A Perfect Egg, all of which appear to be out-of-print (of course). Sounds like an author worth checking out, and the story Marcus ...
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