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Literary Cocktail Hour: Jay Parini on “Borges and Me”
February 12, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites you to a conversation with poet, novelist, and biographer Jay Parini, on Friday, February 12, at 5:00 pm for a discussion of his book “Borges and Me: An Encounter.” Register for Literary Cocktail Hour with Jay Parini.
Parini teaches at Middlebury College. His six books of poetry include New and Collected Poems, 1975-2015. He has written eight novels, including The Damascus Road, Benjamin’s Crossing, The Apprentice Lover, The Passages of H.M., and The Last Station, the last made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer.
Parini will be in conversation with Emerson College professor Rosario Swanson, who specializes in 20th-century Latin American Literature, women writers, Afro-Latin American writers, and the literature of Equatorial Guinea. Her work has appeared in Ottawa Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Journal, Hispania, MARGES, and others.
