Walser biographer and translator Susan Bernofsky teams up with writer Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances) to introduce stories from and about Walser’s enigmatic microscripts, late texts written on scraps of paper in a millimeter-scale hand, which will be published on May 25 by New Directions and Christine Burgin Gallery. Stories, a trivia quiz with prizes, larger-than-life secret manuscript pictures, and a German penmanship lesson. Advance copies of the book will be available.
Participants
  • Susan Bernofsky
  • Rivka Galchen ’s most recent book is Little Labors, a miscellany about babies and literature. She is also the author of the short story collection American Innovations and the novel Atmospheric Disturbances, winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.