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NEWSLETTER TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) Global Tales from the IWP in Soho
2) IWP issue
3) November Book Club
4) On the Bookshelf
5) Blogs, Blogs, Blogs
6) Giving

Dear Friends:

This month we host the second WWB/Housing Works "Tales from the Global Village" event on Monday, November 19th, at 7 pm at Housing Works in Soho, NYC: "Only Connect: A Celebration of Global Writing Today with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa" with authors Alex Epstein, István László Geher, Kei Miller and special guest Christopher Merrill. "Only Connect" will feature an evening of readings of original poetry and prose, followed by a Q&A. More details at the site.

ONLY CONNECT: We salute the Iowa International Writing Program as it celebrates forty years of hosting international writers in residence. Each fall the world comes to Iowa, as writers from around the globe converge to write, talk, and soak up literary culture. We present a dozen of these authors--six poets, six fiction writers--here. Xi Chuan contemplates loss in bright moonlight, while Ra Heeduk finds it colored light green. Gentian Çoçoli descends a figurative Parnassus, and Istvan Laszlo G. scales the piano. Doris Kareva's lost love sears her eyelids and her heart; Ashur Etwebi elegizes his beloved Libya. Rafael Courtoisie's alcoholic doctor scotches surgery; Etgar Keret 's traveler writes a Swift end to a classic. Kei Miller's preacher loves the sinner and the sin, while Saša Stanišić sees a flight turn into a fugue. Alex Epstein's painters make art imitate art, and Hana Andrikova's grieving Indian family seeks solace in ritual. As IIWP director Christopher Merrill urges in his luminous introduction: "Only Connect."

Elsewhere in this issue, Marie Etienne witnesses past and future in her Fagles Prize-winning work (congratulations Marie and translator Marilyn Hacker!), Gunnar Harding pools teen lust, and Pedro Lemebel shows how a man becomes a mother.

NOVEMBER BOOK CLUB: We kick off our November Book Club on the WWB blog with Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short-story collection Mandarins. Join Michael Orthofer, managing editor of Complete Review and Literary Saloon, as he dips into the subtle irony and gorgeous craft of one of the masters of Japanese short-fiction. A lively discussion of Mandarins continues all month. Don't forget to add WWB to your RSS feed for daily content (stories, poems, reviews) and blog updates.

ON THE BOOKSHELF: Christopher Cox finds solace in words at Dorothea's Dieckmann's Guantanamo; Tsipi Keller unpacks the allusions in Aharon Megged's Flying Camel and the Golden Hump, and Robert Buckeye investigates the grim, abandoned backwater of an Eastern Europe writhing under runaway capitalism in Andrzej Stasiuk's Nine.

BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS: Arnon Grunberg carries his Afghanistan baggage to Paris.

GIVING: You may now donate to WWB online. Your donation helps us commission more translations of exciting new international works, build our community features, host live readings and events, and continuously improve WWB. We couldn't do it without you and are immensely grateful for your support. Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.Join us in December, when we present literature on partings.

The Editors