Fri October 4, 2024
9th Ave: Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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Join us on Friday, October 4 at 7pm PT when we celebrate the release of Season of the Swamp with author Yuri Herrera and translator Lisa Dillman at 9th Ave! Joined in-conversation by special guest Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
Presented in proud partnership with the Center for the Art of Translation
This event is free to attend, but please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/J3Qv5Ich9j0
Praise for Season of the Swamp
"Mesmerizing . . . as glorious and messy as the best New Orleans gumbo. . . . It's a triumph."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review
"The always thrilling and always remarkable Yuri Herrera has outdone himself here: reading Season of the
Swamp is like being thrown into deep water only to open your eyes and find a haunting and haunted world, one
full of magic and beauty, exiles and outsiders, longing and song. I didn't want to surface--here I am still, in its great, brilliant light."--PAUL YOON, author of The Hive and the Honey
About Season of the Swamp
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans.
Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juárez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge. He and his compatriots work odd jobs, suffer through the heat of a southern summer, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation, succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever, and fall in love with the music and food all around them. But unavoidable, too, is the grotesque traffic in human beings they witness as they try to shape their future.
Though the historical archive is silent about the eighteen months Juárez spent in New Orleans, Yuri Herrera imagines how Juárez's time there prepared him for what was to come. With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera's fiction, Season of the Swamp is a magnificent work of speculative history, a love letter to the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture, and a cautionary statement that informs our understanding of the world we live in.
About Yuri Herrera
Born in Actopan, Mexico, Yuri Herrera is the author of three novels, including Signs Preceding the End of the World, as well as the collection Ten Planets, which was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans.
About Lisa Dillman
Lisa Dillman is based in Atlanta, where she teaches at Emory University. She is translator of some thirty novels, including those of Yuri Herrera, Pilar Quintana, Sabina Berman and Andrés Barba.
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Presented in proud partnership with the Center for the Art of Translation
This event is free to attend, but please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/J3Qv5Ich9j0
Praise for Season of the Swamp
"Mesmerizing . . . as glorious and messy as the best New Orleans gumbo. . . . It's a triumph."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review
"The always thrilling and always remarkable Yuri Herrera has outdone himself here: reading Season of the
Swamp is like being thrown into deep water only to open your eyes and find a haunting and haunted world, one
full of magic and beauty, exiles and outsiders, longing and song. I didn't want to surface--here I am still, in its great, brilliant light."--PAUL YOON, author of The Hive and the Honey
About Season of the Swamp
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans.
Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juárez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge. He and his compatriots work odd jobs, suffer through the heat of a southern summer, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation, succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever, and fall in love with the music and food all around them. But unavoidable, too, is the grotesque traffic in human beings they witness as they try to shape their future.
Though the historical archive is silent about the eighteen months Juárez spent in New Orleans, Yuri Herrera imagines how Juárez's time there prepared him for what was to come. With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera's fiction, Season of the Swamp is a magnificent work of speculative history, a love letter to the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture, and a cautionary statement that informs our understanding of the world we live in.
About Yuri Herrera
Born in Actopan, Mexico, Yuri Herrera is the author of three novels, including Signs Preceding the End of the World, as well as the collection Ten Planets, which was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans.
About Lisa Dillman
Lisa Dillman is based in Atlanta, where she teaches at Emory University. She is translator of some thirty novels, including those of Yuri Herrera, Pilar Quintana, Sabina Berman and Andrés Barba.
Join us on Friday, October 4 at 7pm PT when we celebrate the release of Season of the Swamp with author Yuri Herrera and translator Lisa Dillman at 9th Ave! Joined in-conversation by special guest Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
Presented in proud partnership with the Center for the Art of Translation
This event is free to attend, but please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/J3Qv5Ich9j0
Praise for Season of the Swamp
"Mesmerizing . . . as glorious and messy as the best New Orleans gumbo. . . . It's a triumph."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review
"The always thrilling and always remarkable Yuri Herrera has outdone himself here: reading Season of the
Swamp is like being thrown into deep water only to open your eyes and find a haunting and haunted world, one
full of magic and beauty, exiles and outsiders, longing and song. I didn't want to surface--here I am still, in its great, brilliant light."--PAUL YOON, author of The Hive and the Honey
About Season of the Swamp
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans.
Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juárez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge. He and his compatriots work odd jobs, suffer through the heat of a southern summer, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation, succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever, and fall in love with the music and food all around them. But unavoidable, too, is the grotesque traffic in human beings they witness as they try to shape their future.
Though the historical archive is silent about the eighteen months Juárez spent in New Orleans, Yuri Herrera imagines how Juárez's time there prepared him for what was to come. With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera's fiction, Season of the Swamp is a magnificent work of speculative history, a love letter to the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture, and a cautionary statement that informs our understanding of the world we live in.
About Yuri Herrera
Born in Actopan, Mexico, Yuri Herrera is the author of three novels, including Signs Preceding the End of the World, as well as the collection Ten Planets, which was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans.
About Lisa Dillman
Lisa Dillman is based in Atlanta, where she teaches at Emory University. She is translator of some thirty novels, including those of Yuri Herrera, Pilar Quintana, Sabina Berman and Andrés Barba.
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Presented in proud partnership with the Center for the Art of Translation
This event is free to attend, but please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/J3Qv5Ich9j0
Praise for Season of the Swamp
"Mesmerizing . . . as glorious and messy as the best New Orleans gumbo. . . . It's a triumph."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review
"The always thrilling and always remarkable Yuri Herrera has outdone himself here: reading Season of the
Swamp is like being thrown into deep water only to open your eyes and find a haunting and haunted world, one
full of magic and beauty, exiles and outsiders, longing and song. I didn't want to surface--here I am still, in its great, brilliant light."--PAUL YOON, author of The Hive and the Honey
About Season of the Swamp
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans.
Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juárez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge. He and his compatriots work odd jobs, suffer through the heat of a southern summer, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation, succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever, and fall in love with the music and food all around them. But unavoidable, too, is the grotesque traffic in human beings they witness as they try to shape their future.
Though the historical archive is silent about the eighteen months Juárez spent in New Orleans, Yuri Herrera imagines how Juárez's time there prepared him for what was to come. With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera's fiction, Season of the Swamp is a magnificent work of speculative history, a love letter to the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture, and a cautionary statement that informs our understanding of the world we live in.
About Yuri Herrera
Born in Actopan, Mexico, Yuri Herrera is the author of three novels, including Signs Preceding the End of the World, as well as the collection Ten Planets, which was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans.
About Lisa Dillman
Lisa Dillman is based in Atlanta, where she teaches at Emory University. She is translator of some thirty novels, including those of Yuri Herrera, Pilar Quintana, Sabina Berman and Andrés Barba.
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