Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Upcoming events

Conversations with Beethoven Wednesday, September 10, 7 pm Barnes and Noble, Upper West Side, New York Poet and translator Richard Howard and Leo Carey, Senior Editor atThe New Yorker, discuss Sanford Friedman's final novel,Conversations with Beethoven, in Barnes and Noble's Writers on Writers series.

Lit Crawl Manhattan Saturday, September 13, 6–6:45 pm Crime Scene Bar and Lounge, New York Listen to readings from Alberto Moravia's Agostino, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Professor and the Siren, and Jean-Patrick Manchette's The Mad and the Bad by their translators.

An Evening with Ian Buruma Tuesday, September 16, 7 pm 192 Books, New York Ian Buruma will read from and discuss his new essay collection, Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War.

A Discussion of the novel Totempole Thursday, September 18, 7 pm The Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, New York Join Peter Cameron, author of the afterword of Totempole and the novels Coral Glynn and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, and Benjamin Taylor, author of Naples Declared, for a discussion ofTotempole, a radical coming-of-age novel by Sanford Friedman.

Voting Rights from Reconstruction to Obama Sunday, September 21, 2–2:50 pm Brooklyn Book Festival Author and critic Darryl Pinckney (Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy), University of Baltimore law professor F. Michael Higginbotham (Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America), and The Nation contributing writer Ari Berman discuss African-American voting rights as another contentious midterm election approaches. Moderated by Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Voting Rights and Civil Participation Project at New York Law School, Erika L. Wood.