  {"id":280006,"date":"2010-09-28T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/09\/28\/bragi-olafssons-upcoming-events-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:31:50","slug":"bragi-olafssons-upcoming-events-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/09\/28\/bragi-olafssons-upcoming-events-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bragi Olafsson&#39;s Upcoming Events &#038; Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may already know, Bragi Olafsson&#8217;s new novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/5#ambassador\"><em>The Ambassador<\/em>,<\/a> is releasing next month. It&#8217;s an awesome, hilarious, fun novel about an Icelandic poet who attends a poetry festival in Lithuania, where his coat is stolen, where he gets pretty wasted, and where he meets a bunch of eccentric poets (surprise?). (Read an except by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/excerpts\/ambassador_excerpt.pdf\">clicking here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we have a really cool promotion for this in the works (some of you already know about this, but I&#8217;ll officially announce and explain it later), and in addition, Bragi&#8217;s going to be giving a few readings over the next few weeks. Specifically:<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scandinaviahouse.org\/events_lectures_literary_upcoming.html#theambassador\">Book Talk with Bragi Olafsson<\/a> <\/b><br \/>\nThursday, September 30th at 6:30pm<br \/>\nScandinavian House, 58 Park Ave. (at 38th St.), <span class=\"caps\">NYC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/pagesandplaces.org\/the-panels\/panel-descriptions\/\">The World on Our Bookshelves: The Import of Literature in Translation<\/a> <\/b><br \/>\nSaturday, October 2nd at 9am<br \/>\nPages &amp; Places Festival<br \/>\nArtWorks, 503 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, PA<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.192books.com\/eventsupcoming.htm\">Reading and Discussion at 192 Books<\/a> <\/b><br \/>\nTuesday, October 5th at 7pm<br \/>\n192 Books, 192 Tenth Ave. (at 21st St.), <span class=\"caps\">NYC<\/span><br \/>\n(please <span class=\"caps\">RSVP<\/span> by calling 212.255.4022)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more about the Pages &amp; Places Festival separately, but for now, here&#8217;s the basic info. And I hope you can come out to at least one of these.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the release of this book (Bragi&#8217;s second with Open Letter, you should also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/5#pets\"><em>The Pets<\/em><\/a>), we&#8217;re giving away 10 copies. Simply go to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Open-Letter-Books\/21935471709?ref=ts\">Open Letter Books Facebook Fan Page<\/a> and click &#8220;like&#8221; or leave a comment on the &#8220;giveaway post.&#8221; We&#8217;ll select the winners on Friday . . . <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/5-olafsson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/544.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may already know, Bragi Olafsson&#8217;s new novel, The Ambassador, is releasing next month. 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