Hrag Vartanian

Jeffrey Feldman (aka Frameshop) came up with an inventive way to launch his new book:
Frameshop: NEW BOOK LAUNCHES TODAY!!

Today is the big day!
My new book Outright Barbarous launches today, May 1. Rather than just have it appear on Amazon with an imperceptible “blip,” we are having an online book launch party over at [...]

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Today we have a guest, Jennifer Cody Epstein, whose new book, The Painter from Shanghai, is a fascinating fictionalized account of the life and times Pan Yuliang, a prostitute who became one of the first truly modern artists in China.

The ultimate underdog, Xiuquing was orphaned at a young age and later sold into prostitution by [...]

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I ventured to the East Village today (KGB bar to be exact) to attend the NY event for the Spring/Summer 2008 issue Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. The journal has devoted a special print issue to the persevering Russian Jewish Diaspora.
Readers were Val Vinokur, Matvei Yankelevich, Margarita Shalina (pictured above), David Stromberg [...]

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Last night (Sun. Feb. 17 at 6pm), New York’s Gartal book reading series continued with all the authors of (An)daratsutian Mej [In the (Un)space] at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village. The book is published by the Women’s Resource Center of Yerevan, Armenia.Gartal founder and visionary, Nancy Agabian, hosted the special trilingual reading with [...]

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The Univ. of Michigan is offering an English class unfortunately titled “How to Be Gay,” and the course description explains:
n particular, we will examine a number of cultural artifacts and activities that seem to play a prominent role [...]

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