Two Lines launch party
Viracocha | 998 Valencia Street | San Francisco, CA
Come party in San Francisco’s coolest subterranean event space! Join the editors of Two Lines to celebrate our first full year as a biannual journal with a double launch party for issues 21 and 22.
Translators Daniel Levin Becker, Yael Segalowitz, and Andrea Lingenfelter will be on hand to give a sampling of the best international literature out of France, Israel, and Hong Kong. Plus, a special super-secret reading by Two Lines managing editor Jessica Sevey. Come find out what she picks!!
Daniel Levin Becker is Reviews Editor for the magazine The Believer and the youngest member of the French literary workshop Oulipo. His first book, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature, was published by Harvard University Press in 2012.
Yael Segalovitz was born and raised in Israel and now lives in the Bay Area, where she is pursuing her PhD in comparative literature at UC Berkeley. Her research spans Israeli, Brazilian, and English literature. She translates between the three languages and is currently working on a Hebrew translation of Clarice Lispector’s A Via Crucis do Corpo, forthcoming from the Israeli publisher Ha-Kibbutz ha-Me’uchad/Sifriat Po’alim.
Andrea Lingenfelter is a Bay Area–based writer, scholar of Chinese literature, and translator of fiction (including Farewell My Concubine and Candy) and poetry (including the 2012 Northern California Book Award–winning collection The Changing Room: Selected Poems of Zhai Yongming). A 2014 NEA Translation Grant awardee and 2013–14 Kiriyama Fellow at the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco, she is translating Wang Anyi’s novel Scent of Heaven and Hon Lai Chu’s The Kite Family.