Quick Hits for May 5: Morrison,Messud and PEN
Quick Hits for May 5: Morrison on Agaat and a Panel on Translation
PEN Event #1:
It's not because I am a current PEN fellow that I touting the goods of the PEN International Literary Festival, but this is an awesome conversation courtesy of Tin House between Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk(author of Agaat), moderated K. Anthony Appiah. I haven't read van Niekerk yet and I am quite embarrassed by that. As a writer, I can appreciate the insights on craft and as a reader, I can appreciate the story. Ms. van Niekerk calls her character a 'vampire'. And that's not vampire in the inserted-into-a-classic-to-make-money kind of a way, but the true depiction of a person as an emotional vampire. I am looking forward to reading this South African writer. Also, fyi, if you're looking for a lesbian literary icon, it probably doesn't get much better than van Niekerk. Check out even twenty minutes of the video and you'll take something away from it.
PEN Event #2: Modern Library concocted a list of the best 100 novels of the 20th century and included only 8 women and only 3 titles were translated. So, Guernica , the engrossing online literary journal, was also a part of the PEN International Literary Festival puts together a great pane to discuss this. Anyway, more great commentary on gender and xenophobia in publishing. Now you can probably skip the first 13 minutes(not that introductions aren't important, but...), but no matter how much you watch, you will more than likely gather a new perspective about publishing and how it is we read what read. The question of diversity starts it off--can a woman write as a man and vice versa. And from it reaches to novels and publishing reflecting the culture of the time. Really good stuff. I would upload the video, but YouTube went on the fritz.
Posted by Monica at 5/4/2010 6:32 PM 
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