{"id":307106,"date":"2017-10-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/10\/03\/wojciech-nowicki-tour\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:18","slug":"wojciech-nowicki-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/10\/03\/wojciech-nowicki-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Wojciech Nowicki Tour!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This evening, at Volumes Bookcafe in Chicago, Wojciech Nowicki’s U.S. tour for Salki<\/em><\/a> kicks off. A four-city tour spanning the next ten days, this is your one opportunity in 2017 to meet the author of the book about which Andrzej Stasiuk said, “Your skin will crawl with pleasure from reading.”<\/p>\n

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          Tuesday, October 3rd, 7pm<\/b>
\nIn Conversation: Wojciech Nowicki & Jan Pytalski w\/ Susan Harris<\/a><\/p>\n

Volumes Bookcafe
\n1474 N. Milwaukee Ave.
\nChicago, IL 60622<\/p>\n

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          Thursday, October 5th, 7:30pm<\/b>
\nReading and Conversation: Wojciech Nowicki & Jan Pytalski<\/a><\/p>\n

Kosciuszko Foundation
\n2025 O St. NW
\nWashington, DC 20036<\/p>\n

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          Tuesday, October 10th, 7:30pm<\/b>
\nMemory and Fiction: Wojciech Nowicki’s Salki<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSloan Auditorium
\nGoergen Hall
\nRochester, NY 14627<\/p>\n

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          Wednesday, October 11th, 7pm<\/b>
\nReading and Conversation: Wojciech Nowicki and Nicole Rudick of The Paris Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A\u0113sop
\n138 West Broadway
\nNew York, NY 10013<\/p>\n

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And here’s a bit more info about the book itself:<\/p>\n

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Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer\u2019s conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel\u2014and the uncomfortable tensions this desire creates\u2014the narrator of Salki<\/em> starts recounting tragic stories of his family\u2019s past, detailing their lives, struggles, and fears in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. In these pieces, he investigates various \u201csalkis\u201d\u2014attic rooms where memories and memorabilia are stored\u2014real and metaphorical, investigating old documents to better understand the violence of recent times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Winner of the prestigious Gdynia Literary Award for Essay, Salki<\/em> is in the tradition of the works of W. G. Sebald and Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski, utilizing techniques of Polish reportage in creating a landscape of memory that is moving and historically powerful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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