{"id":297356,"date":"2014-04-07T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/04\/07\/amanda-michalopoulous-reading-tour-all-the-april-events-part-i\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:44:24","slug":"amanda-michalopoulous-reading-tour-all-the-april-events-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/04\/07\/amanda-michalopoulous-reading-tour-all-the-april-events-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Michalopoulou's Reading Tour [All the April Events, Part I]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amanda Michalopoulou’s second novel to appear in English, the brilliantly titled Why I Killed My Best Friend<\/em>,<\/a> doesn’t officially come out until May 20th, but we released it a couple months early for her cross-country tour. <\/p>\n

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The book details the lifelong ups-and-downs of two best friends who meet in grade school when they both move back to Greece from other countries. (The narrator longs for her beloved Africa, Anna has been growing up in the refined atmosphere of Paris.) Like any best friends, they are also intimate rivals, a rivalry that is reignited years later when Anna reenter’s Maria’s life and basically takes over Maria’s radical political group. This mixture of Greek politics and the emotional turmoil that comes along with best friendship make this an incredible book that really does end with with a death . . . <\/p>\n

If you’re not sold yet, here’s Gary Shteyngart’s blurb: \u201cFlawlessly translated, Amanda Michalopolou\u2019s WIKMBF<\/span><\/em> uses the backdrop of Greek politics, radical protests, and the art world to explore the dangers and joys that come with BFF<\/span>s. Or, as the narrator puts it, \u2018odiodsamato,\u2019 which translates roughly as \u2018frienemies.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Now the tour:<\/p>\n

Exhibit X Reading Series<\/a>
\nThursday, April 10th, 7pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Hallwells
\n341 Delaware Ave.
\nBuffalo, NY 14202<\/p>\n

Reading the World Conversation Series: Radical Politics and BFF<\/span>s<\/a>
\nTuesday, April 15th, 6pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Gowen Room
\nWilson Commons
\nÄ¢¹½´«Ã½
\nRochester, NY 14627<\/p>\n

Amanda Michalopoulou with Translator Karen Emmerich<\/a>
\nWednesday, April 16th, 7:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Powell’s Books on Hawthorne
\n3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
\nPortland, OR 97214<\/p>\n

Center for the Art of Translation: An Evening with Amanda Michalopoulou<\/a>
\nFriday, April 18th, 6pm<\/b><\/p>\n

The Book Club of California
\n312 Sutter St
\nSan Francisco, CA 94108<\/p>\n

Reading at City Lit Books<\/a>
\nSunday, April 20th, 3pm<\/b><\/p>\n

City Lit Books
\n2523 North Kedzie Blvd.
\nChicago, IL 60647<\/p>\n

There are also events in the works at Brown University and Princeton. As soon as we have the details confirmed, I’ll post about them here and will put them in our recently resuscitated Translation Events Calendar.<\/a> (If you have an event you want to add to this, simply email kaija.straumanis [at] rochester.edu.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amanda Michalopoulou’s second novel to appear in English, the brilliantly titled Why I Killed My Best Friend, doesn’t officially come out until May 20th, but we released it a couple months early for her cross-country tour. The book details the lifelong ups-and-downs of two best friends who meet in grade school when they both move […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[14096,13416,55156],"class_list":["post-297356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-amanda-michalopoulou","tag-reading-tour","tag-why-i-killed-my-best-friend"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338296,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297356\/revisions\/338296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}