New German-language literature comes to New York and New Haven

From February 11 to 13, 2011, the second “Festival Neue Literatur” brings six of the “best up-and-coming German-language authors” to New York, where they will join U.S. authors Francine Prose and Rivka Galchan in a series of conversations and readings.
This year’s German-language participants are: Dorothee Elmiger(Switzerland), Andrea Grill (Austria), Julia Schoch (Germany), Antje Rávic Strubel (Germany), [...]

Books. DVDs, CDs, & Calendars by Berlinica Publishing

For Berlin Fans
New! Books. DVDs, CDs, & Calendars by Berlinica Publishing
Wallflower – A Novel by Holly-Jane Rahlens
Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, a sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis [...]

German author Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke, born in West Germany, moved to the US in 2005 and still writes in German. The successful author of the “Inkworld” trilogy returns with a new book and a new creative partner.

Read the LA Times story:
The writer of the Inkworld trilogy returns with a fresh work, ‘Reckless,’ and a creative partner, Lionel [...]

Fame: Daniel Kehlmann

Fame: Daniel Kehlmann in Conversation with Carol Brown Janeway
Daniel Kehlmann talks about FAME on September 23 in NYC
The month of September 2010 will be “German-American Friendship Month” in the city of New York. It is the fourth consecutive time, that the city honors German-American culture and the contributions of immigrants from Germany by dedicating an [...]

Informative little book of language

In this little book linguist David Crystal usefully sums
up the history of the the thing that sets the homo sapiens apart from
all other animals, language. Written with a younger and non-linguist audience
[...]

New Taschen store in Miami

There are some who say that TASCHEN publishes the most exquisite books on the planet. Certainly, since 2001 we have strived to create exquisite TASCHEN Stores in our planet’s most vibrant and exciting cities. Our aim has always been to provide our customers with elegant and inspirational surroundings in which to explore our books. [...]

You will never eat salad without thinking where it came from again

Whether we like it or not, we all know that part of the American wealth and our cushioned lifestyle is based on a huge workforce in foreign countries like China as well as immigrants within the US doing jobs most Americans won’t do. Not only won’t do for the small wages they pay, but probably [...]

New York: New Goethe Institut Library Now Open!

The library at the new Goethe Institut location at 72 Spring Street opened for business on February 2, 2010. The new opening hours are: Tues. – Thurs. 2 – 7 pm; Fri. 12 – 5 pm; Sat. 10am – 1 pm
The Goethe-Institut New York Library is one of the few German-language lending libraries in the [...]

“Arnold Schwarzenegger. Die Biografie”

New release from DVA, Random House Group and Spiegel Verlag:
“Arnold Schwarzenegger. Die Biografie” by Marc Hujer.
Everyone thinks they know Schwarzenegger: some because they once met him personally; others because the most famous Austrian in the past 30 years has become a fixture in our lives. German Spiegel reporter Marc Hujer has extensively studied Schwarzenegger for [...]

Delightful book by Gesine Bullock Prado

As featured in our Christmas Special here is the book tip
Confections of a Closet Master Baker: One Woman’s Sweet Journey from Unhappy Hollywood Executive to Contented Country Baker
by Gesine Bullock-Prado

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