Rivka Galchen is one of eight novelists taking part in Festival Neueu Literatur
Saturday, February 12, powerHouse Arena, 37 Main St., free, 6:00
Sunday, February 13, Idlewild Books, 12 West 19th St., free, 6:00
www.festivalneueliteratur.org
Two emerging German-language authors from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland will meet with two established American writers as well as translators and curators in Festival Neue Literatur, which features a pair of free weekend gatherings. Tonight at 6:00 at the powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, Peter Weber (DIE MELODIELOSEN JAHRE), Andrea Winkler (HANNA UND ICH), Andrea Grill (ZWEISCHRITT), Rivka Galchen (ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES), and assistant professor Paul North (Yale University) will discuss “The Power of the Novel,” while tomorrow night at 6:00 “Writing and Memory” will include readings and discussions with Antje Ravic Strubel (UNTER SCHNEE), Julia Schoch (VERABREDUNGEN MIT MATTOK), Dorothee Elmiger (EINLADUNG AN DIE WAGHALSIGEN), Francine Prose (MY NEW AMERICAN LIFE), and translator Susan Bernofsky (Columbia) at Idlewild Books. The festival is sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum, Deutsches Haus at NYU, the Goethe-Institut, the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, the Swiss Arts Council, and the New York German Book Office.