{"id":1213,"date":"2018-04-25T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T06:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2018-04-25T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T06:57:33","slug":"invitation-to-meet-and-read-in-leipzig-author-and-picador-guest-professor-rajesh-parameswaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/2018\/04\/25\/invitation-to-meet-and-read-in-leipzig-author-and-picador-guest-professor-rajesh-parameswaran\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to Meet and Read in Leipzig: Author and Picador Guest Professor Rajesh Parameswaran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The US author and current Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the Institute of American Studies Leipzig,\u00a0Rajesh Parameswaran, reads from his short story collection\u00a0 “I am an Executioner: Love Stories”.<\/p>\n

Rajesh Parameswaran was born in Chennai, India and moved to the United States as an infant. His works\u00a0have appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, and Zoetrope: All-Story and Fiction. Rajesh Parameswaran lives in New York. His short story collection “I am an Executioner: Love Stories” has been published in German at Kiepenheuer & Witsch. The collection of nine short stories deals with the power of love as well as the love for power.<\/p>\n

Moderation: Stefan Schubert, Institute of American Studies, University of Leipzig.<\/p>\n

The reading and discussion will be followed by a reception offering Pretzels, lemonade, and wine.<\/p>\n

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When<\/strong>: May 3, 2018, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Where<\/strong>: Galerie f\u00fcr Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Kunst, Karl-Tauchnitz.Str. 9, 04107 Leipzig<\/p>\n

Admission is free; please register here<\/a><\/strong>. The event will be held in English.<\/p>\n

For more information, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Picador Guest Professorship for Literature is a collaborative initiative by<\/p>\n

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The US author and current Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the Institute of American Studies Leipzig,\u00a0Rajesh Parameswaran, reads from his short story collection\u00a0 “I am an Executioner: Love Stories”. Rajesh Parameswaran was born in Chennai, India and moved to the United States as an infant. His works\u00a0have appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, and Zoetrope: All-Story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-events","category-quick-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}