Two coming events

Event 1

Wednesday,November 11 2009 at 8pm
Yury's Piano
339 Watertown St.,Newton MA 02458

Дорогие друзья,

приглашаю вас на очередную лекцию из цикла "Русские писатели: вторая половина жизни".

Лекция 4. О том как Ф. М. Достоевский умер от счастья.

Event 2

On Thursday, November 12, 7 pm, Ludmila Petrushevskaya will read from
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary
Fairy Tales (Penguin), a collection of her short stories selected and
co-translated by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers. The reading will be held
in Room 101 of Boston University's School of Communication building, 640
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. (Green line: BU East). Tickets: $5 at the
door. This is a Russian-language event.

On Friday, November 13, 7pm, a reception welcoming and honoring Ludmila
Petrushevskaya will be held at the Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow
Street, Harvard Square. http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/ Wine will
be served; stories will be read; and There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried
to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby will be available for purchase. This
reception is free and open to the public.

For more information about the last two events, please email John
Summers at summersj@bc.edu .
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I plan to go to Nemirovsky's lecture, but won't be able to meet with Petrushevskaya (as much as I'd like to). Will be interested to hear from those, who'd come to her evenings.