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Book Expo America 2008: BookForum Party
May 30, 2008
If you knew the amount of work that the photo to the right represents, you'd stand up and clap for me. I'm amazed that I managed to get it taken, downloaded, uploaded, sized, uploaded again, and correctly placed.
Yes, I had a little help.
This photo of the suave and debonair David Kipen, Director of Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts, holding court at the Reading the World/BookForum BEA party. The party was at the extremely spare and extremely cool REDCAT Theater, close by the Gehry-designed Disney Theater and the Museum of Contemporary Arts.
I'm a big fan of world lit, so I've followed
Chad Post's work for several years. He's left Dalkey Archive and is now the Director of Open Letter, which is part of the group responsible for Reading the World 2008. To the right: Chad with yours truly at last night's party. Please take a look at Open Letter, and please consider adding a new work in translation to your nightstand stack. If there had been any copies left of Per Petersson's
Out Stealing Horses left, I would have nabbed one -- but since there weren't, I'll be sure to buy one. There are so many books out there competing for our attention, I know. But without books in translation, think about it: none of us would ever have read
Madame Bovary or
The Magic Mountain or
Anna Karenina (I'm a little obsessed with Anna this week, probably because I've had to pack for a trip, and Mr. Bethanne always refers to me as "Anna K." when he sees how many bags I try to bring).
I have to run off to a panel and a meeting and then another panel and a party...but there is definitely more to come, so please check back over the weekend if you can.
Posted by Bethanne Patrick on May 30, 2008 | Comments (2)
