- An Evening of Borges and Brilliant Dialogue In a world where reality television and social media hold sway over the masses, it’s hard to imagine that more than 250 people would line-up in New York City on a Monday night to attend a ninety minute lecture by four different translators on Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. At the Americas Society, that’s exactly […]
- Mario Vargas Llosa Talks Trash About Sartre, Calls Faulkner “The Man” On Monday night, Team Literary Man was generously invited to sit and listen to the great Mario Vargas Llosa hold court at the Americas Society and dish deep on the World Republic of Letters. What a treat, dear readers, to sit in an elegant, chandeliered oak-walled library and listen to Edith Grossman, Mario’s translator, ask […]
- Mario Vargas Llosa Live Podcast Tonight at 7pm Writers, for those of you who’d like to listen to Mario Vargas Llosa tonight, the Americas Society will be streaming the author’s presentation tonight LIVE at 7pm EST. Here’s the link to the podcast that will be live tonight. Don’t forget to send us your questions you’d like us to ask the Nobel laureate.