Gustave Kahn's The Solar Circus is being published on February 9th, 2023. In celebration, translator and scholar Sam Kunkel is headed out on a tri-city junket for in-depth discussions of Gustave Kahn, his work, and the world in which he lived and wrote.
Roll on by if you're available:
Friday, February 10th, 2023
Mast Books, New York City
Sam Kunkel talks Kahn's philosophy with Nico Ponce de Leon Dios
6:30pm
Nico Ponce de Leon Dios is a businessman, autodidact, and the co-editor of the First To Knock Periodical series.
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Saturday, February 18th, 2023
Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago
Sam Kunkel talks circus literature with Jeremy Kitchen
3pm
Jeremy Kitchen is a writer, critic, and librarian. His fiction was featured in the First To Knock collection Echoes of a Natural World: Tales of the Strange & Estranged.
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
Sam Kunkel talks Symbolism with Robert Pruett-Vergara
7pm
Robert Pruett-Vergara is the Reviews Editor of Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies. He completed a University of Oxford D.Phil in 2021 on the fin-de-siècle writer Remy de Gourmont, and is particularly interested in the French Symbolist novel.