“I’m being tapped on the shoulder by the question of whether I am at present writing quietly or loudly; by the same token I ask myself whether the present sketch sounds pointy or dull.”

- Robert Walser, Microscripts

 

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Watch this page for the most recent information on forthcoming work and upcoming lectures, readings, book-launch parties and media appearances.

JUST OUT

Microscripts by Robert Walser, paperback edition with art by Maira Kalman (New York: New Directions, 2012)

In Translation: Translators on Their Work And What It Means, ed. Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)

FORTHCOMING BOOKS

The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (New York: New York Review Books Classics, forthcoming October 2013)

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, foreword by David Cronenberg (New York: Norton, forthcoming winter 2013/2014)

UPCOMING EVENTS

May 10, 2013
Gläserner Übersetzer (translation demonstration)
Solothurner Literaturtage
Solothurn, Switzerland
11:00 a.m.

May 10, 2013
Erste Sätze bei Robert Walser und in zeitgenössischer Schweizer Literatur (panelist) with Fuminari Niimoto, Tali Konas, Fan Jieping, moderated by Peter Utz
Solothurner Literaturtage
Solothurn, Switzerland
3:00 p.m.

May 31, 2013
"The Translator and the Editor: A Fraught Relationship" (panelist)
with Mary Ann Caws, Chad Post, Marek Krajewski, Victoria Wilson and David Goldfarb.
Book Expo America
Room 1E07, Javits Center
3:30 - 4:20 p.m.

June 6, 2013
Book launch for In Translation: Translators on Their Work And What It Means as part of Gutekunst Prize ceremony
Goethe Institut
72 Spring St., 11th Floor
New York, NY
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.