Past Events

Two Lines Press and Powell’s Books on Hawthorne have collaborated to bring The Boys author Toni Sala to Portland for a bookstore reading! Sala will read from his first Two Lines Press title.

This two-day workshop will introduce classroom teachers to the Poetry Inside Out language arts curriculum and prepare them to implement the program in their classrooms.

As part of the annual Litquake literary festival, we welcome Baboon author Naja Marie Aidt back to the Bay Area!

“Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature.”
— László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize

Join us on October 19 at Brecht-Haus in Berlin to celebrate one of Germany’s most essential authors. Although the late Wolfgang Hilbig was no stranger to acclaim in his native Germany, he never had a full-length book published in English. That changes this year, as two Hilbig titles see their English-language release: The Sleep of the Righteous (Two Lines Press) and ‘I’ (Seagull Books).

This two-day workshop will introduce classroom teachers to the Poetry Inside Out language arts curriculum and prepare them to implement the program in their classrooms.

Katrina Dodson discusses her translation of The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector.

Considered by many to be the greatest among a new generation of Indonesian novelists, Eka Kurniawan will discuss his books Beauty is a Wound and Man Tiger with Center founder Olivia Sears and his translator Annie Tucker.

Translators Ben Paloff and Alex Zucker discuss Paloff’s translation of Richard Weiner’s The Game for Real.

We welcome author and translator Benjamin Paloff to Diesel Bookstore in Oakland, California to celebrate the publication of his translation of The Game for Real by Richard Weiner.

A classic Chinese silent film screening at the 2015 San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

Mexican author Mario Bellatín and translator/publisher David Shook discuss Jacob the Mutant.

Translator Daniel Balderston discusses Silvina Ocampo’s Thus Were Their Faces.

Author Horacio Castellanos Moya and Translator Katherine Silver discuss his newest book.

They’ll discuss the translation of Herrera’s newest book, Signs of Life Preceding the End of the Universe.

Join us to celebrate the release of Two Lines issues 21 and 22.

Join the translator and publisher of Elena Ferrante to discuss her books.

We’ll host Karen Emmerich, the English-language’s pre-eminent Greek translator.

Translators Peter Bush and Katherine Silver discuss Catalan author Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook.

What do we lose when a language dies? What does it take to save a language?

Translator Sean Cotter will discuss his translation of one of Romania’s most celebrated authors.