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Haim Watzman Dear readers, It’s a month of opportunities to hear me talk about translation and writing, two in Zoom and in English and one in person and in Hebrew. “Translating in Nabokov’s Shadow” is the third installment in a wonderful series on translation sponsored by the Tel Aviv Review of Books and the National … Read more
Haim Watzman Last week I gave a sneak preview of my new “Necessary Stories” show and my hard work is paying off—the audience laughed and pondered and enjoyed. I’ll be polishing it up over the next couple months and then it will be ready to go on tour. I’ll be in the U.S. in late … Read more
I’ll be speaking tomorrow, Monday March 16, at 8 pm. at Evan Fallenberg‘s writers’ studio in Bitan Aharon, near Netanya. I’ll be discussing the dos and don’ts of memoir and travel writing. Tickets are NIS 60 at the door, NIS 50 a piece if you bring a spouse. Reserve seats by writing to evanfallenberg@gmail.com. Directions … Read more