Vladimir Sorokin, author of the recently published Ice Trilogy* (as well as of The Queue, also published by NYRB Classics) lives in Moscow, but this weekend, you can catch him in New York. He's participating in two events being held as part of the PEN World Voices Festival of Literature. More about Sorokin and the festival can be found here.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
In Conversation: Vladimir Sorokin and Keith Gessen
4:30 pm – 6 pm
The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square
New York City
Tickets: $15/$10 PEN Members, students with valid ID. Call (866) 811–4111 or visit ovationtix.com
Sunday May 1, 2011; 1 p.m
Russia in Two Acts
With New York Review contributors Garry Kasparov, Jamey Gambrell, and Christian Caryl
Plus Vladimir Sorokin and Fedor Svarovskiy
The Morgan Library & Museum, Lehrman Hall
225 Madison Avenue
New York City
Tickets: $25/$20 for New York Review readers and PEN/Morgan Members or students with valid ID. "Call (866) 811-4111 or visit ovationtix.com
*"I am reading this book and it is melting my MIND"—Colin Meloy
Paul Di Filippo reviews the trilogy in the BN Review
Boyd Tonkin writes about it for The Independent
"I crave rereading this trilogy, just as the Brotherhood of the Light long to be reunited with their Ice. It is a desire to experience something elemental, basic, and heart altering. —Mike of Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA, where we fear the employees might be forming their own gnostic cult.
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