BOOK READING
Look at Him by Anna Starobinets
Friday, September 22, 2023 at 7:00 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(RSVP required)
Russian author in exile Anna Starobinets, a Cheuse Center visiting writer, and her translator, Katherine E. Young, will read and discuss the memoir Look at Him. The evening will mark the 7th anniversary of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center Cheuse Fellows program.
"I read the manuscript...through the night, unable to put it down, a memoir of a young woman in Moscow who discovers in the 16th week of her pregnancy that the baby she is carrying has a fatal defect. The book chronicles not only the author’s personal anguish as she contemplates abortion but the inflexibility of the Russian medical system and Russian society in general" (Joanna Chen, Los Angeles Review of Books).
Journalist, scriptwriter, and novelist Anna Starobinets has been called “Russia’s Queen of Horror.” She has published novels, short stories and children's books, and describes herself as writing "horror and supernatural fiction for adults, and also fairy and detective stories for children." Poet and translator Katherine E. Young has translated prose from Russia and Azerbaijan and poetry from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, Young served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington, Virginia.
Doors open at 6:30 pm and program will begin 7:00 pm.
Discounted parking available 2001 Pennsylvania Ave.
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