Samanta Schweblin, the 2022 recipient of the National Book Award for translated literature, will discuss her latest release, Good and Evil and Other Stories, at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Wild Detectives at 314 W. Eighth St. in Dallas.
Samanta Schweblin’s “Good and Evil and Other Stories” was published in August.
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Joined by her translator, Megan McDowell, the Argentine author will present her exquisite collection of uncanny tales wherein a mute child sends his silence through a gas station telephone, a murdered cat briefly haunts a writer’s colony and a sociopathic son uses his mother’s frequent nursing home escapes as a form of violent talk therapy.
Attendees may RSVP at Eventbrite, where books can be purchased for $33.18.
Two Deep Vellum books longlisted for National Book Awards
This is the first year the Dallas publishing house has been considered for the English-language fiction and poetry categories.
Chef and writer Samin Nosrat to appear at Arts and Letters Live
The ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ author will share culinary insights on Oct. 9 at the Eisemann Center in Richardson.