{"id":42,"date":"2008-09-03T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/03\/at-the-merc-16sept2008\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:37:53","slug":"at-the-merc-16sept2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/03\/at-the-merc-16sept2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Three International Literary Sensations in One Hour-long Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image43\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/merc-reading-sept16.jpg\" alt=\"merc-reading-sept16.jpg\" \/><\/br><br \/>\n<font color=\"#19472a\"><small>clockwise from top left: Peixoto, Grimbert, and Agualusa<\/small><\/font><\/p>\n<p>In addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/28\/wendy-lee-irina-reyn\/\">the official season premiere<\/a> of &#8220;Beatrice @ the Merc&#8221; later this month, I&#8217;ve been invited to host another literary event at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercantilelibrary.org\">Mercantile Library Center for Fiction<\/a>. On Sept. 16, I&#8217;ll be leading a discussion with three internationally acclaimed authors&#8212;Jos&#233; Eduardo Agualusa (<i>The Book of Chameleons<\/i>), Jos&#233; Peixeto (<i>The Implacable Order of Things<\/i>),  and Philippe Grimbert (<i>Memory<\/i>)&#8212;about the ways that history and memory come into play in their fiction. I&#8217;m digging into the reading now&#8212;and looking forward to planning out some interesting questions for our hour-long conversation.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the Mercantile Library (17 East 47th St.), at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, September 16. I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p>(UPDATE: This event is now co-sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\">Words without Borders<\/a>, an online magazine for literature in translation that undertakes to promote international communication through publication of the world&#8217;s best writing. Its monthly publications include fiction, nonfiction, poetry and contextual essays, all available for free online.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>clockwise from top left: Peixoto, Grimbert, and Agualusa In addition to the official season premiere of &#8220;Beatrice @ the Merc&#8221; later this month, I&#8217;ve been invited to host another literary event at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction. On Sept. 16, I&#8217;ll be leading a discussion with three internationally acclaimed authors&#8212;Jos&#233; Eduardo Agualusa (The Book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}