Past Events

Books are Magic hosts a celebration of Cuíer: Queer Brazil, the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press.

Two Lines Press joins Community Bookstore to celebrate Mauritian writer Carl de Souza’s Kaya Days, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. Carl and Jeffrey will be in conversation with Jamaican poet, essayist, and novelist Kei Miller.

Sign up for a teacher workshop to bring Poetry Inside Out poetry and translation lessons to your classroom this school year.

Two Lines Press joins the Transnational Literary Series to celebrate Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping, the Egyptian author’s first book to be brought into English by Robin Moger. Mohamed and Robin will be in conversation with Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi.

We join Point Reyes Books to present award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky in this celebration of her long-awaited biography of the modernist writer Robert Walser, Clairvoyant of the Small. Susan will be in conversation with Kate Zambreno, author of Drifts, a novel in which Walser hovers in the background. Kate’s forthcoming book To Write As If Already Dead circles around the author’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life.

Join us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy, a powerful coming-of-age story that tracks Nancy’s youth through remote memories of her Chilean childhood, translated by Ellen Jones. Chilean author Bruno Lloret and translator Ellen Jones join Kathryn Scanlan to discuss his innovative use of typography and illustration to capture his narrator’s waning sense of consciousness.

Mirene Arsanios, Sawako Nakayasu, and Mónica de la Torre will join in a roundtable discussion on Don Mee Choi’s essay Translation is a Mode = Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode and its relation to their own approaches to expanded translation practice and complex linguistic-cultural identity. The roundtable will be moderated by Esther Allen. Co-presented by Ugly Duckling Presse and CUNY Center for the Humanities.

Point Reyes Books hosts a celebration of the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press with translators Jessica Cohen, Allison Charette, and Brian Bergstrom. Moderated by Cristina Rodriguez.

The 3rd annual Swahili Literary Festival will explore Woman and her immense role in Swahili Heritage exemplified in traditional and modern practices.

AWP looks different this year, but here’s where you can (virtually) find us if you’re attending.

Join Community Bookstore(opens in a new tab) and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island, a collection of stories that traverse the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom, brilliantly translated by Christina MacSweeney. Spanish author Elvira Navarro joins translator Christina MacSweeney to discuss Rabbit Island with Sarah Rose Etter.

Join Unabridged Bookstore(opens in a new tab) and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating João Gilberto Noll’s Harmada(opens in a new tab), a mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto.

2013 Latin American Voices prize winner and Two Lines Press author Jazmina Barrera returns with her latest book, On Lighthouses(opens in a new tab), a critical and imaginative study of lighthouses around the world and their meaning to us as individuals.

Two Lines Press joins Boston Harbor Now for a discussion of lighthouses and harboring with On Lighthouses author, Jazmina Barrera, and Sally Snowman, lighthouse keeper of the Boston Light.

Poet, essayist, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick joins us for a conversation about his new translation of ancient Greek poetry, Stone-Garland(opens in a new tab). Co-sponsored by Pt. Reyes Books(opens in a new tab).

Jordan Stump joins Imani Perry to present Marie NDiaye’s That Time of Year(opens in a new tab). Co-presented by Community Bookstore(opens in a new tab).

Two Lines Press joins the Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Literature Series(opens in a new tab) to celebrate Home(opens in a new tab), the second book in the Calico Series.

We’ve teamed up with our friends at Pt. Reyes Books and the Point Reyes National Seashore Association to celebrate the publication of Jazmina Barrera’s On Lighthouses. Jazmina will be joined by Philip Hoare and Stephen Sparks for a conversation about lighthouses, the ocean, and our relationship with peril and safeguarding at the edge of the sea.