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The Brooklyn Rail on The Wall in My Head: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/11/book s/nonfiction-after-the-wall
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The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain, A Words Without Borders AnthologyOpen Letter, 2009

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The New Yorker on the new issue of Words without Borders: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bo oks/2009/11/zaimoglu-on-zaimoglu.html
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Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925

Words Without Borders The new issue of Words without Borders, Twenty Years After: Germany Then and Now, is online: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org
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On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this month’s contributors address the events and aftermath of that transformative time in Germany. Whether witnessing the collapse of ...

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Copies of The Wall in My Head are in at Words without Borders HQ! Have you ordered yours yet: http://catalog.openletterbooks.org/autho rs/18

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From the Wall in My Head blog: Paul Wilson's Tower of Song: http://thewallinmyhead.com/articles/15/t ower-of-song
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On the night of November 9, 1989, after months of unrest in Europe and East Germany, the checkpoints between East and West Berlin were suddenly, almost accidentally, opened, reuniting the two sides of ...

Words Without Borders Words without Borders editorial director, Susan Harris will be on on "Here on Earth" on Wisconsin Public Radio today talking about the October issue from 3 to 4 CDT: http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/
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A grant from the national Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has allowed UW-Madison and Here on Earth to launch a multimedia series called Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates. We welcome your comments which we may air during our mail bag segment. ...

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The top piece from our archive this month is a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab= DarwishTragedy
WWB: The Tragedy of Narcissus The Comedy of Silver by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by
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They returned…from the end of the long tunnel to their mirrors…they returnedwhen they recovered their brothers’ salt, single or in groups, they returnedfrom the myths of defending citadels to what is simple ...

Words Without Borders NYC area fans, Help us create a viable market for international literature in the English speaking world. Join us at our first fundraiser. Drinks! Food! Paul Auster! Dean Wareham! Only 45 (of 200) tickets left: wwb2009fundraiser.eventbrite.com

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Geoff Wisner is still looking for the best African memoirs: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?post =DispatchesAfricanMemoirs
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Lately I’ve been reading a lot of African memoirs: books like Echoes of an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz, An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie, Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete, and Return to Childhood by Leila Abouzeid.

Words Without Borders Still wondering about 2009 Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller? We just added a translation from her new novel to the site:
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I carried everything I had. It wasn't actually mine. It was either intended for a different purpose or somebody else's. The pigskin suitcase was a gramophone box. The jacket was from my father. The town coat with the velvet neckband from my grandfather. ...

Words Without Borders Our friends @PolishCultureNY have a symposium, After Kapuscinski: The Art of Reportage in the 21st Century, on Oct. 6 + 7 http://ow.ly/sNcC
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="2">Kapuscinski's writing, always wonderfully concrete and observant, conjures marvels of meaning out of minutiae... [The Emperor] transcends reportage... - Salman Rushdie="2">="2">This two-day event ...

Words Without Borders Have you seen our new issue, Foreign Correspondents: International Reporting? http://www.wordswithoutborders.org

Lusine Haroyan Thanks for this worldwide literature forum

Rita Cenni I am an old friend, I've been receiving your newsletter from the beginning; bravo!





















