Andrew Lam has received Pen American’s Beyond the Margins Award for his book Perfume Dreams. His story “The Palmist,” which originally appeared in the winter 2004 issue of MANOA, was reprinted in New Sudden Fiction (Norton) and chosen by Symphony Space for “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story.”
Symphony Space will be presenting Lam’s “The Palmist” and Ha Jin’s “A Bad Joke”—another short story published in MANOA—on January 24th. The performances will be taped live for airing on NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” a series of readings of work from New Sudden Fiction.
December 19, 2006
The pilot issue of no man’s land will be launched on December 7, 2006. A special English 10th anniversary edition of the alternative Berlin literary magazine lauter niemand, it features acclaimed young writers such as Hendrik Jackson and Uljana Wolf. For the translations, the project also drew on the talents of the local Anglophone literary scene, organizing a translation workshop at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. The print edition will be available internationally at Goethe Institutes, other cultural institutions and expat bookshops, while the online edition is also designed as an information resource for literature enthusiasts, translators and those interested in expat cultural initiatives. The project is sponsored by Berlin’s Culture Senate.
Details of the launch are as follows: December 7, 9 p.m., Ballhaus Ost, Pappelallee 15; reading in English and German with Daniel Falb, Andrej Glusgold, Orsolya Kalász, Ulf Stolterfoht, Donna Stonecipher and Ron Winkler. Contact: Isabel Cole at isabel@no-mans-land.org.
December 5, 2006
