“I’m being tapped on the shoulder by the question of whether I am at present writing quietly or loudly; by the same token I ask myself whether the present sketch sounds pointy or dull.”

- Robert Walser, Microscripts

 

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Watch this page for the most recent information on forthcoming work and upcoming lectures, readings, book-launch parties and media appearances.

NEW BOOK

False Friends by Uljana Wolf (Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011)


FORTHCOMING BOOKS

Berlin Stories by Robert Walser (New York: New York Review Books, Jan. 2012)

The Walk by Robert Walser, translated by Christopher Middleton, edited by Susan Bernofsky (New York: New Directions, Spring 2012)

NEW FICTION

The Blind Dates, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2011

UPCOMING EVENTS

Jan 19
Launch Party for Stonecutter Journal
61 Local
61 Bergen St. at Smith St., Brooklyn.
7:30 - 11:00 p.m.

Feb 2
Book Party for Berlin Stories by Robert Walser
192 Books
192 Tenth Ave. at 21st St.
7:00 p.m.

Feb 9 - 12
Festival Neue Literatur
Curator

Feb 11
Reinventing the Past
Chris Adrian, Catalin Dorian Florescu, Inka Parei and Linda Stift in conversation with Daniel Kehlmann
Powerhouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn
6:00 p.m.

Feb 12
Frühschoppen Literary Brunch, moderator
Deutsches Haus, NYU
42 Washington Mews
12 p.m.

Writing on the Margins: Literature between Cultures
Francisco Goldman, Monica Cantieni, Larissa Boehning and Erwin
Uhrman in conversation with Liesl Schillinger
McNally Jackson
52 Prince Street, New York
6:00 p.m.


Feb 26
We Don't Need to See Anything Out of the Ordinary.
We Already See So Much

A Symposium on Robert Walser's Microscripts to accompany
In the Spirit of Walser, Donald Young Gallery
with Thomas Schütte, Jörg Kreienbrock and Michał Paweł Markowski
Goethe Institut Chicago
150 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 200
3:00 p.m.