Selected Events 2006

September 29, 2006.
John Haskell, a former actor, playwright, and performance artist who has worked in Chicago and New York, read from his much acclaimed debut novel "American Purgatorio" in Bamberg. "I'm interested in what happens below the surface", says the author. The reading took place at "Collibri", a Bamberg bookstore. Nora Gomringer, a rising star in the German literary scene read from the German translation published by Tropen Verlag. An audience of 60 people – mostly students – enjoyed the spotlight on a mesmerizing new novel.