Robert Walser was in the audience (and wrote about it) when the great Anna Pavlova came to Berlin in 1909. Here’s the story, an outtake from Clairvoyant of the Small, just published on the Yale University Press blog.
The Page 99 Test
Took the Page 99 Test for the Campaign for the American Reader blog.
Interview / Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour
Interviewed by Kate Wolf on the LARB Radio Hour podcast as the second part of a double episode also featuring Kate Zambreno.
Robert Walser Panel Discussion
With Christine Burgin, Maira Kalman, Josiah McElheny, and Amy Sillman, moderated by Carin Kuoni, hosted by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery
Interview / The American Scholar
“The Author’s Accomplice”: interviewed by Stephanie Bastek for the Smarty Pants podcast.
Susan Bernofsky on Robert Walser with Thad Ziolkowski
Hosted by the Leon Levy Center for Biography
Interview / Center for the Art of Translation
“Six Questions”: interviewed by Michael Holtmann for the Center for the Art of Translation blog
“Plato II: To a Dialectician” by Josef Albers
Poem translated for the 4th edition of Poems and Drawings by Josef Albers
Clairvoyant of the Small: A Conversation with Eileen Myles
Hosted by Deutsches Haus at NYU
Libraries
Recorded Jorge Luis Borges’s story “The Library of Babel,” translated by Andrew Hurley, for Libraries by Josiah McElheny at James Cohan Gallery.
The Stories We Tell
“The Stories We Tell,” Frieze 216 (Jan./Feb. 2021), 76-81.
Fresh Air: Thomas Mann and the Literature of Contagion
“Fresh Air: Thomas Mann and the Literature of Contagion,” The Berlin Journal 34 (2020-2021), 58-59.