On Saturday November 5, Andrés Neuman, author of How to Travel without Seeing, will appear at two events at the Texas Book Festival.
The Texas Book Festival connects authors and readers through experiences that celebrate the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination.
Neuman's first event will be a Spanish-language panel at the AHORA SI Tent, with Eduardo Rabasa, Mauro Javier Cardenas, and Antonio Ruiz Camacho, entitled "New Letters in a New Land": Latin America is a powerhouse of dynamic new literature. Catch up with the latest work from some of the region’s most acclaimed, awarded and up-and-coming authors.
When: Saturday, November 6, 2016, 12:30–1:15 pm
Where: AHORA SI Tent, Grounds surrounding the State Capitol in Austin, Texas
Neuman's second event will be an English-language panel in the State Capitol Building with Geoff Dyer entitled "Oh the Places You'll Go": The work of a travel writer is hardly straightforward. There are whirlwind trips and there are deliberate pilgrimages; culture and current events sit right alongside the writer’s personal past. Two of the world’s preeminent writers on place, Andrés Neuman (How to Travel Without Seeing) and Geoff Dyer (White Sands) discuss what a travel writer is truly seeing—and why they choose to look in the first place.
When: Saturday, November 6, 2016, 3:00–3:45 pm
Where: CAP E2.028 State Capitol Building, 1100 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701
Both events will be followed by signings at the Main Signing Tent.
By Andrés Neuman
Translated from the Spanish by Jeffrey Lawrence
“The most breathtaking voice in travel writing today may be that of a writer who feels ambivalent about travel itself…. ‘Perhaps the greatest travel book, the most unpredictable of all,’ Andrés Neuman suggests in the closing paragraphs of How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America, ‘would be written by someone who doesn’t go anywhere and simply imagines possible movements. Facing a window that seems like a platform, the author would lift his head and feel the rush of the horizon.’ It’s a line that operates as both valedictory and epigraph…. As How to Travel Without Seeing progresses, it increasingly functions... as a set of vignettes, reflections, shards of memory or observation that add up in the only way such fragments can, as an approximation of consciousness…. This is what it means to travel now.”
—David Ullin, Barnes & Noble Review
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060556
Publication date: Aug 30, 2016