Indie Press Evening: And Other Stories
Wheelchair friendly:
Yes
9 Feb 2012 - 19:00 - 23:30
Location
6 Croxted Road
London SE21 8SWUnited Kingdom
51° 26' 11.2092" N, 0° 5' 24.9468" W
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Location:
6 Croxted Road
SE21 8SWSee map: Google Maps
Featured Press: And Other Stories
Deborah Levy: Swimming Home
Rosalind Harvey: translating Down the Rabbit Hole
Deborah Levy: Swimming Home
Rosalind Harvey: translating Down the Rabbit Hole
9th February 7.00pm, FREE!
For the second event in our Indie Presses series, Deborah Levy will be speaking about her recent novel Swimming Home, where a seemingly ordinary, middle-class villa holiday is disturbed by the arrival of Kitty Finch, ‘a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water.’ John Self wrote in the Guardian that Swimming Home ‘has taken worn structures and made something strange and new.’ Swimming Home will also be Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime from the week beginning 27th February.
Afterwards Rosalind Harvey, translator of Guardian First Book Prize-nominated Down the Rabbit Hole, by Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos, will talk about translating the novel and literary translation in general. We have limited signed copies of Juan Pablo’s book, which has been a surprise best seller at Dulwich Books!
And Other Stories is only one year old, and already their slender list of four titles has received plenty of attention. Publishing carefully-selected foreign and British fiction, with a focus on translation, their books are elegant objects with startlingly original contents. And Other Stories’ philosophy and 11 Commandments emphasise the social side of publishing, with subscribers able to participate in decision making; Jenny Diski, writing in the LRB, thinks they might be just be the future of publishing…
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