A Comedy Reading

A comedy reading is taking place this Friday, April 11 at Anglo-American University.

Prague Micro Festival, May 12 – 16

The Prague Micro Festival is returning for its fourth year and will take place May 12 – 16, with readings, discussions and book launches taking place at K4 club (Celetná Street 20, Prague 1).

Author Interview: Jeanne Guillemin, Author Of American Anthrax

The medical anthropologist and author talks about her latest book, American Anthrax and germ-warfare threats to the U.S.

Dutch Poet Hagar Peeters To Visit Prague

As part of the 2012 City2Cities literary festival, Dutch poet Hagar Peeters will visit Prague to give a bi-lingual reading of her work and to conduct interviews with local writers.

Literary Lariat: A Cultural Roundup

A roundup of the latest literary stories from around the web.

Czech Documentary Film On Writer Arnošt Lustig

Czech writer Arnošt Lustig (1926 -2012) is being honored by a documentary exactly one year since his death.

Polish Poet Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)

Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996, has died of lung cancer in her home in Southern Krakow.

Literary Lariat: A Cultural Roundup

A roundup of literary stories from the web.

Romani Poet Vlado Oláh (1947-2012)

Prominent Romani poet and translator Vlado Olah has died at the age of 64 following a prolonged illness.

Carl Weissner (1940-2012)

A key figure in the German literary avant-garde and translator of Bukowski and other American writers has died.