Vienna Review of Books

Today, walking through the sleepy streets of Trieste, it is hard to imagine the city James Joyce lived in for a dozen years at the turn of the 20th Century. It was then the fourth largest seaport in Europe, the hub of trade from the lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a major connection point between Europe and Asia. According to travel writer Jan Morris, the first commercial vessel to sail through the Suez Canal in the 1860s was the steam ship Primo of Trieste.

Summer Reading Book Sale

Summer reading book sale on the ground floor of the English and American Studies Library in the 9th district. Light reading and other english books for the summer. Good reads at a fair price for all you bookworms out there!

Jul. and Sep., Mon-Thu., 10:00 - 16:00
Fri., 10:00 - 14:00
Aug., Mon-Fri., 10:00 - 14:00
University Campus, Altes AKH
9., Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 8
(01) 4277 16531
www.bibliothek.univie.ac.at

33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium 2010

Like many, I often have a dream in which I imagine I enter a room in my house and discover a door I never noticed before; opening it, I discover another room I never knew was there, filled with furnishings, books and pictures, and perhaps windows and other doors, all new and yet already known, and I recognize it immediately; it is my own world, only more so.

It was raining when I arrived at Shakespeare & Company’s street fair on May 7, so the festivities celebrating Sylvia Beach were over. But no matter—because I was there for the books.

Secreted away on a picturesque lane in the heart of the Ruprechtsviertel, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, Shakespeare & Company at Sterngaße 2 has the cozy, been-there-forever feeling that devoted readers adore in bookshops.

Marjorie Perloff’s memoir traces her life from a well-to-do childhood in Vienna at the heart of an assimilated, intellectual Jewish family, via their flight in 1938 to the United States, to her absorption into American society and culture, and ends with her more than respectable career as Professor of Comparative Literature and eminent literary critic.

BLOOMSDAY 2010 IN VIENNA

“Perhaps we should begin,” writes historian Tony Judt, “by reminding ourselves and our children that it wasn’t always like this.”

That there was a time, not so long ago in America and Britain, when social decisions were made for social reasons, when the public dialogue was about the public welfare, and when justice – not damage awards – was the goal of law.

The improbable tale of a 9th-century woman who became head of the Catholic Church has been a legend long told and long believed. Still there is little to go on and no irrefutable evidence to back up the existence of Johanna of Ingelheim, also known as Pope Johannes Anglicus.

Whether true story or myth, however, the life journey of the “Woman Pope” as it might have been lived, serves as the basis for Donna Woolfolk Cross’ fine first novel Pope Joan, a work that demanded seven years of thorough research into the secrets of a century-old papal legacy.

INTRO TO NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

Peter Schütz focuses his evening lecture on basic NLP ideas: self-management, coaching, clever use of words and body language, and psychodynamics for personal and professional use. Schütz is an accredited European psychotherapist, consultant and business mediator.

May 9, 19:00-21:00
The British Bookshop
1., Weihburggasse 24
(01) 512 19 450
www.britishbookshop.at

POETRY OPEN-MIC NIGHT

The Association of English-Language Poets in Vienna “Labyrinth” invites people of all languages to present personal and literary poems in an open-mic night. Cultural variations will be welcomed and examined in a night of insightful presentations.