{"id":193380,"date":"2026-04-11T14:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:14:42","slug":"a-celebration-of-alphabet-soup-online-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193380\/","title":{"rendered":"A celebration of Alphabet Soup | Online Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join n+1 on Sunday, April 26 for a celebration Alphabet Soup: The Translingual Sayings of Emma and Eva as Recorded by Their Father, Eugene Ostashevsky, published by <a href=\"https:\/\/tamizdatproject.org\/programs\/publishing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tamizdat Project<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rabrab.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rab-Rab Press<\/a>. Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls written down by their poet father. As their Turkish-German-Russian-American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin.<\/p>\n<p>Ostashevsky will discuss and read from Alphabet Soup, and copies of the book will be for sale, along with beer and wine. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. The n+1 office is wheelchair accessible. RSVP <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.givelively.org\/event\/n1-foundation-inc\/a-celebration-of-alphabet-soup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sunday, April 26<br \/>7 PM<br \/>n+1 office<br \/>37 Greenpoint Ave #316<br \/>Brooklyn<\/p>\n<p>Praise for Alphabet Soup<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA marvelous book! Language is itself a poet: this is something that children know (as do some poets).\u201d \u2014Yoko Tawada, author of Exophony: Voyages Outside the Moth<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA delightful collection of mixed-language creations that will resonate with parents raising bilingual kids.\u201d \u2014Aneta Pavlenko, author of The Bilingual Mind: And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join n+1 on Sunday, April 26 for a celebration Alphabet Soup: The Translingual Sayings of Emma and Eva&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,4619,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-193380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-events","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}