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A Celebration of Burton Pike

Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., New York

Burton Pike (1930-2022) was a translator of German and French, known particularly for his work on Robert Musil, including the translation, with Sophie Wilkins, of The Man Without Qualities (1996). He was, as well, a scholar of literature, culture, and translation, author of Robert Musil: An Introduction to His Work (1961) and The Image of […]

Places and Traces: The Translation Archive

Tucson Marriot Tucson

Panel, American Literary Translators Association Conference Literary translation is a profession that is relatively portable. And yet, translation also leaves its trace. Translators’ papers, or their hard drives, can be a treasure for those interested in exploring the work of their predecessors. Often these doc- uments are incidental to the archive of a writer or […]

All Souls: A Tribute to the Poetry of Saskia Hamilton

Event Oval, Barnard College Diana Center Lower Level 1, New York

Members of the literary community will read from All Souls, the posthumously published collection by Saskia Hamilton, whose poems and lyric fragments transform fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Readers will include Catherine Barnett, Susan Bernofsky, Maureen N. McLane, Maya Popa, Alice Quinn, James Fenton, Rosanna Warren, Sharon Olds, and others. […]