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Writers Around the World
Friday, December 07, 2007
A new anthology series features literature from around the world – one country at a time. Edward Hirsch edits The Writer’s World; Eavan Boland is editing the volume on Irish writers, and Margaret Sayers Peden is editing the volume on Mexican writers.
Event: Edward Hirsch, Eavan Boland, and Margaret Sayers Peden will be reading
Friday, December 7 at 7 pm
New York University
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
Weigh in: Tell us if there's a country whose literature you love and that you feel is ignored here in the U.S.
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Quick questions - Will there be a book on West Indian writers?
Pick any country in Africa. Or, how about Peru? Paraguay? Native American writing?
Will the book on Hebrew writers include any Yiddish writers? Do you think it should? Or at least discuss the distinction??
Writers are not as much honored in America because the principal artistic genre is film. Film actors and producers run for public office; celebrities become ambassadors to the world. It is not the written word, but the visual which is highly acclaimed and celebrated. We are a visually oriented society, intoxicated by the latest incarnations of computer graphics, and numbed by it, as well. In fact writers in Hollywood are often denigrated and demeaned.
Vietnam, especially stories that feature everyday life there.
A favorite source of these:
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/index.php?subcat=81
There's a whole body of writing in English by
Philipino writers that's hardly known here.
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