AMERICAN SHORTS READING SERIES
An Incident of Human Rights
Two acclaimed authors take different approaches to the same “real events.” Castellanos Moya’s novel is a wild, fictional phantasm that is deeply rooted in real-world documents. Goldman’s meticulous non-fictional investigation is a tour-de-force of a whodunit that seems more fantastic than any reality.
Both authors will do short readings, after which there will be a Q &A.
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Horacio Castellanos Moya has been acclaimed as one of the foremost contemporary Spanish-language authors in the world. He is the author of 9 novels, translated into 5 languages. His novel Senselessness, recently published in an English translation by New Directions, has received glowing reviews across America, from New York’s Village Voice and Time-Out to the San Francisco Chronicle. Russell Banks called it a “brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America…. Castellanos Moya is a major author who deserves a wide audience in the U.S.” Senselessness is very, very funny and terrifying at the same time. It is not like anything else you have ever read.
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Francisco Goldman (born 1954) is an American novelist and journalist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles TimesThe Art of Political Murder was named one of the “100 Notable Books of the Year” by The New York Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. in 2007.
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| Read Chapter One: Senselessness |
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Read an Excerpt: The Art of Political Murder |