Oddný Eir, author of Land of Love and Ruins, will be appearing in the United States this year. Watch this space for updates!
Read MoreEvents
Events for 'History of a Disappearance' Author Filip Springer
Filip Springer, author of History of a Disappearance: The Forgotten Story of a Polish Town, will be in the United States from Poland this spring for an author tour. He'll also be in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, in May for the Hay Festival and back in the UK in August for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Catch him in person at one of these live events! Watch this space for updates.
Author Events
- April 25, 2017: UIC Polish Studies Annual Hejna Conference (Chicago, IL)
- April 25, 2017: Unabridged Bookstore (Chicago, IL)
- April 26, 2017: The Booksmith (San Francisco, CA)
- April 29, 2017: Common Good Books (Saint Paul, MN)
- May 2, 2017: Ridgewoodteka Book Club at Topos Bookstore Café (Ridgewood [Queens], NY)
- May 3, 2017: PEN World Voices Festival: "Water as Weapon" (New York, NY)
- May 4, 2017: PEN World Voices Festival's Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition (New York, NY)
- May 5, 2017: Lit Crawl NYC's "A Most Exquisite Corpse" (New York, NY)
- May 6, 2017: Greenpoint Public Library (Brooklyn, NY)
- May 26, 2017: Hay Festival (Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK)
- August 13, 2017: Edinburgh International Book Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Get the Book
Author Events for Immigrant Writing Prize Winner Deepak Unnikrishnan
in Books, Bookstores, Events, Fiction
Deepak Unnikrishnan, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for his debut novel Temporary People, is coming to the States from Abu Dhabi for an author tour. A starred Kirkus review calls the book “An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation." Catch him in person at one of these live events:
Author Events
- January 28: Reading Group Choices Book Lovers Extravaganza at Milkweed Books (Minneapolis, MN)
- March 13: Franklin Park Reading Series with Mary Gaitskill and Others (Brooklyn, NY)
- March 14: Greenlight Bookstore Launch Party with Mia Alvar (Brooklyn, NY)
- March 16: City Lights with Shanthi Sekaran (San Francisco, CA)
- March 17: Diesel, A Bookstore with Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Oakland, CA)
- March 19: Skylight Books with David Shook (Los Angeles, CA)
- March 20: Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
- March 21: Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
- March 21: Unabridged Bookstore (Chicago, IL)
- March 22: Seminary Co-Op (Chicago, IL)
- March 23: Asian American Writers Workshop with Alexandra Kleeman (New York, NY)
- March 24: NYU (New York, NY)
- August 19: Edinburgh International Book Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Get the Book
Featured
By Filip Springer
Translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye
Winner of Asymptote Journal’s 2016 Close Approximations Translation Contest and Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize, History of a Disappearance is the fascinating true story of a small mining town in the southwest of Poland that, after seven centuries of history, disappeared.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061157
Publication date: Apr 4, 2017