Adina Hoffman on Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
About this episode
Adina Hoffman discusses Georges Perec's work and its exploration of Paris with host Michael Kelleher.
Our winter season continues with Adina Hoffman (recipient of a 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction) chatting with Michael Kelleher about Georges Perec's magical and mercurial and maddening An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris , translated by Marc Lowenthal. Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century , Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (with Peter Cole), Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, and Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures. Hoffman’s essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation , the Washington Post , the New York Times , the TLS, Raritan , Bookforum, the Boston Globe, New York Newsday, Tin House, and on the World Service of the BBC. She is formerly a film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post and was one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press devoted to the publication of the literature of the Levant. She has been a visiting professor at Wesleyan University, Middlebury College, and NYU, as well as the…
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