Gabriel García Marquez’s “La Candida Erendira” book will come to life as a play and premieres In Washington. The play, directed by Colombian director Jorge Alí Triana will show in the Gala Hispanic Theater, which is celebrating its 35th year of promoting Hispanic arts in the U.S.
Cuban writer Emerio Medina, winner of Casa de las Americas Award 2011 in the category of stories, said today in the city of Holguin that he feels literature as a necessity to live.
Penguin is launching 50 Modern Mini Classics and this weekend the Telegraph is giving away free two of the finest: F Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited on Saturday and Henry James’s The Beast In The Jungle on Sunday.
Under an unseasonably hot Rajasthani desert sun, unreasonable numbers of bibliophiles made their way to Diggi Palace for the sixth iteration of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). With 223 speakers and 50,000 visitors, each of the 115 scheduled readings and discussions over five days pulled quite a crowd.
A UC Merced professor examines the portrayal of Los Angeles in Latino literature and film — and the images of Latinos in Los Angeles literature and film — in a book published this week by University of Arizona Press.
Some would say this is Monterey Peninsula College Theatre Co.’s first stab at historical fiction for youngsters. MPC Storybook Theatre presents “The Prince and the Pauper,” opening in the Studio Theatre on campus at MPC.
Date & Time: Tue., January 15, 2011 @ 1:00PM Location: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 West Bay Road, Amherst, MA Admission: Free with Museum Admission Contact Info: 413-658-1113, 413-658-1100; www.carlemuseum.org Join Jane Yolen and a distinguished group of illustrators of her work as they discuss the interplay of words and pictures [...]
Date & Time: January 20, 2011 @ 7:00PM Location: The Press Room, 77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, NH Admission: Contact Info: 603-431-5186; www.pressroomnh.com Bruce Valley will read from his book Rye Harbor: Poems of the New Hampshire Seacoast during a jazz ensemble, as a part of Beatnite.
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