Chicago or NY?

[Benjamin Rifkin]

The New York Review of Books has a booth at the MLA Conference in Chicago.


On 12/4/07 9:35 AM, "Prof Steven P Hill" <s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU> wrote:

> Dear colleagues, Ms Moorad, Dr Chandler:
> 
> My heavens, when did the enormous MLA manage to move its entire
> huge conference from Chicago to New York City this December?
> 
> Or is the MLA conducting 2 gargantuan conferences simultaneously?
> 
> Best wishes for the holiday season,
> Steven P Hill,
> University of Illinois.
> ___________________________________________________
> 
> Date: Tue 4 Dec 07:26:36 CST 2007
> From: <LISTSERV at BAMA.UA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: GETPOST SEELANGS
> To: "Steven P. Hill" <s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU>
> 
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:55:58 -0600
> From: Jacquelyn Moorad <jmoorad at NYBOOKS.COM>
> Subject: Award-Winning Robert Chandler to Sign Copies at MLA
> 
> NYRB CLASSICS is pleased to announce a book signing by award-winning Slavic
> translator Robert Chandler:
> 
> Robert Chandler will sign copies of his translations of Andrey Platonov's
> Soul and Other Stories and Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate at the New York
> Review Books booth at the 2007 Modern Language Association's annual meeting.
> 
> Saturday, December 29th, 4:30 - 5:30 PM.
> Booth 814, MLA Exhibit Hall,  Hyatt Regency
> 
> Soul and Other Stories
> Andrey Platonov
> Translated and introduced by Robert Chandler
> Afterword by John Berger
> The Russian Andrey Platonov is increasingly recognized as one of the
> greatest of twentieth-century writers of fiction, and Soul offers a
> selection of his finest stories. On Robert Chandler's translation, The
> Observer wrote, "Rarely does literature come this close to being music."
> 
> Life and Fate
> Vasily Grossman
> Introduction by Robert Chandler
> ³Grossman¹s account of Soviet life ­ penal, military and civilian ­ is
> encyclopedic and unblinkered...enormously impressive...A significant
> addition to the great library of smuggled Russian works.²‹The New York Times
> Book Review
> 
> Please visit http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/11616 for more information
> on Robert Chandler and NYRB Classics.
> ___________________________________________________________
> 
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:43:41 +0000
> From: Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
> Subject: Complications of collaborative translation
> 
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College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
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