Live and in person at BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH! Celebrate the release of
The CONTINENTAL LITERARY MAGAZINE'S FIRST ISSUE, Prejudice, with
Sándor Jászberényi, Marie Iljasenko, and Judith Newman.
The Continental Literary Magazine: Prejudice
The Continental Literary Magazine is a quarterly English-language
literary magazine launched by the Petőfi Cultural Agency. The
magazine focuses on the literature of Central Europe with the aim of
creating a platform for contemporary Hungarian and Central European
fiction writers to stake out their place in the English-reading world
and, in particular, the North American literary market.
In its first issue, Prejudice, The Continental Literary Magazine
fights prejudice by offering readers a diverse array of individual
stories. It fosters a dialogue on this sensitive and sometimes
embarrassing subject and breaks taboos. It shows that prejudice is a
problem which we must all face and that our prejudices can, perhaps,
be shed.
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Judith Newman (born 1961) is an American journalist and author. She
writes about entertainment, relationships, parenthood, business,
books, science, and popular culture. Her work has run through more
than fifty publications, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair,
Harper's, The Wall Street Journal, Allure (where she served as
Contributing Editor) and Vogue. Newman's books include the memoirs You
Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New (Older)
Mother and To Siri With Love.
Marie Iljasenko was born in 1983 in Kyiv, Ukraine, into a family of
Czech-Polish descent. Her family moved to Czechoslovakia in 1992. She
graduated with a degree in Comparative Literature and Russian Studies
from Charles University in Prague. Her first collection of poems Osip
míří na jih (‘Osip is Heading to the South’) was published in
2015 and nominated for the Magnesia Litera Prize in the category
Discovery of the Year. Her poem 'come closer' is featured in the
inaugural issue of The Continental.
Sándor Jászerényi is the author of The Most Beautiful Night of the
Soul: More Stories from the Middle East and Beyond (New Europe Books,
forthcoming January 2019) and The Devil Is a Black Dog: Stories from
the Middle East and Beyond (New Europe, 2014). In 2017 he received
Hungary’s Libri Literary Prize. As a correspondent and
photojournalist for Hungarian news sites, he has covered the conflict
with Islamic State, unrest in Ukraine, the revolutions in Egypt and
Libya, the Darfur crisis, the Huthi uprising in Yemen, and the Gaza
War. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times Magazine, AGNI, Guernica, and the Brooklyn Rail. He divides his
time between Budapest and Cairo.
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