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German-American Poets
Perform in Vienna

Friday, 10 February, 19:30
Shakespeare and Company, Sterngasse 2

Three American poets currently living in Germany will read their work at this one night only English language event. This is a unique opportunity to see these diverse poets perform together. Come for a night of poetry and cross-cultural conversations!

        Paul-Henri Campbell                                       Rebecca Farivar                                       Angela Hume

 

Paul-Henri Campbell is the author of duktus operandi (ATHENA-Verlag, 2010), the first volume of his trilogy of lyrical verse, Sounding Out Today, and Mein Wahn Straße (fhl Verlag, 2011), a collection of short stories.
Rebecca Farivar is the author of Correct Animal (Octopus Books, 2011) and the chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press, 2011).
Angela Hume is the author of the chapbook Second Story of Your Body
(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2011).

 

 

 

Thursday 19th January 19.30

Travels Through Absence -Letters from a European City
Christopher Thomson

Lovers separated. A letter written. A lonely voice echoes weakly from within the hollow structures of the city. It calls for a glance over a shoulder, for a memory. Journey through questions of identity across the great cities of Europe: Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Stockholm, Budapest, Lisbon, Istanbul and many more. In this meticulously researched collection of moods and symmetries, Christopher Thomson layers up an alternative narrative for the European city of today, crafting a series of intimate reflections on each. Written over years of experience, a travel book like no other.

Christopher is based in Dordolla, a village in the fold of the map and the mountains of Italy, surrounded by the sing-song of the encroaching forest and multitude of languages. He grew up in London but has lived and worked across the continent.
He is concerned by the absence of memory and the slide of identity, because without the fortification of these, based on landscape and learning, the force-fed nonsense of nationality, ethnicity, the worship of power and other controlling sentiments become all the more dangerous. A stroll around Europe describes all too clearly the highly flammable nature of our situation. He is grateful to travel above all it taught him empathy.

      

     Happy X-Mas Holidays
     to You!

 

 

 

We have built a TREE
     with   BOOKS
     - larger than LIFE -

 

 and pieces if ART
by Yves Hayat  

 

 "I admit that I'm more interested in manipulating reality than in recording it. My artwork between photography, installation and 'Figurative narrative' proposes visions where theatricalization is a part of the project. I am a total visual consumer: I film, download, scan, retouch ... as the director of a new reality. Using superimpositions, shifts, misappropriations, I confront past and present, beauty and horror, indifference and fanaticism. Through a questioning about the art/politic/media relations, I try to conceive a critical art work where the attraction for the culture of media, cinema and advertising shows through. Using modern techniques, my work proposes a report of what our history and our society have thought, generated, transformed, destroyed ... while always keeping in Mind that when the work of Art creates unrest, it evacuates the common place."

 Yves Hayat was born in Egypt, but lives and works in France now.
The boxes will be on show until December 27.

 

                       

            BOOKER PRIZE

 

               Shortlist 2011

 

 

 

   .... and
  Snowdrop s  by  A D Miller

 

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Thursday 10th November
                                        7 pm

                          JOY till DEATH

Zsolt Stanik
Bookpresentation with the Author
live classical Guitar Music
with Adam Zalas

 

 

                          May the Ivy    ... 

                                     
 

  grow, with ...  

 

 

                              JOY till Death

Thursday 10th November 7 pm

 

Joy till Death is a book about staying young as you grow old. Set in and around a retirement home, Villa Angelika, it shows how the insight and good will of one man can sweeten and invigorate the lives  of many. It is the story of intertwining lives, intrigues, battles and romances – spiced with humour, pathos and melodram.

A true Czechoslovakian, fluent in both the Czech and Slovak languages, Zsolt Stanik absorbed both cultures in his formative years. He studied nuclear physics and engineering in Prague. From 1993 and retirement in 2006 he held the position of information manager at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. At present he lives in Prague and works as a freelance consultant. He has two children and two grandchildren.

 

 

 

Recently we got a visit from Duncan J. D. Smith, urban explorer and author of the travel  guide  "Only in Vienna"
tracing hidden corners, little-known  places and unusual objects.                                                              
 

Also available from
Duncan J. D. Smith:
Only in Berlin
Only in Budapest
Only in Prague

Other Cities are in preparation.                                                

 

 

 

In Memoriam Oliver Biringer 

Artist, Friend and Creator of the Shakespeare & Company Logo, 
whose heart has failed him to early.

 

 Street-Festival, September 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                             
Exhibition Großriedenthal
2008

 

 






Midsummernightsdream
Sterngasse 21. June 2006

 

Longlist MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction 2010
 

Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America
Emma Donoghue - Room
Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal
Damon Galgut - In a Strange Room
Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question
Andrea Levy - The Long Song
Tom McCarthy - C
 

David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Lisa Moore - February
Paul Murray - Skippy Dies
Rose Tremain - Trespass
Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
Alan Warner - The Stars in the Bright Sky

The shortlist will be announced on September 7th, the winner on October 12th.

All books are in stock.

View the International Magazines we keep available for you on Architecture, Design,
Photography, Literature, Politics & International Affairs, Music, Fashion, Advertising etc.

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