The Commerce Library’s Spanish Book Club started about 15 years ago, as part of the library system’s “Ambassadors of the Library” outreach effort to attract more Spanish speakers to the city’s libraries. All the books the group reads are in Spanish, as are the monthly discussions about what they’ve read.
The two publishers have released their catalogs of September 2014 releases.
The author won for his novel “Ávidas pretensiones”, a satire portraying the miseries of the literary world.
The novel about the Spanish civil war by Antonio Muñoz Molina was translated by Edith Grossman and it is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The festival, from January 30 to February 2, included 90 events with the participation of authors Ricardo Piglia, Irvine Welsh, Chad Hardbach, John Boyne, Emmanuel Carrère, David Foenkinos, Rosa Montero, Clara Sanchez, Vicente Molina Foix and Cees Noteboom; philosophers and journalists included Felipe González, Joe Sacco, Yoani Sanchez, Michael Sandel, Enrique Krauze, Ignacio Ramonet, Rudiger Sanfranky and Beatriz Preciado; and film-makers Juan Campanella and Gael García Bernal.
Students at Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary School will have an opportunity to study a different culture and language, thanks to a new after-school Spanish Club. The club will include activities related to the Spanish culture.
The publisher of tech books has released “Microsoft ACCESS 2013 en profundidad”, “WordPress, Crea, administra y promociona tu blog,”and other titles targeting readers in search of practical, comprehensive and not too lengthy manuals on technology.
Universidad Desconocida en Brooklyn (Brooklyn's unknown university) will be presented this Saturday, February 8th at McNally Jackson bookstore in New York. The series of classes, clinics and seminaries include narrative, poetry, essay and chronicle. The “unknown” teachers are Carlos Labbé, Mónica Ríos, Isabel Cadenas Cañón, Enrique Winter, Naief Yehya, Enrique Enriquez, Héctor Velarde and Lina Meruane.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 5 of 2014 (week ending 2/2/2014).
The February events at the New York-based bookstore include: Jesse Ball ; Jason Porter and Colum McCann; Elif Batumen, Emily Gould, and n+1; Edmund White; Jenny Offill and Alejandro Zambra. Unless noted otherwise, events start at 7 p.m. They are first come, first served, and free. No tickets or reservations are required.
