Live Virtual Events Celebrating "Popol Vuh: A Retellling"

Join Ilan Stavans in conversation about his inspired prose retelling of Popol Vuh, the foundational creation myth of Mesoamerica. Out on November 10, this new rendition offers a window into Maya and K’iche’ cultural, spiritual, and ecological life in what is now Latin America, before the ravages of colonization. With lush illustrations by Gabriela Larios, Popol Vuh: A Retelling bring to life one of humankind’s most influential creation stories, and the cosmology of the people who conceived it .

This post will be updated as more events are confirmed.

October 26: With Boris Dralyuk at Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)

October 29: With Frederick Luis Aldama at DIESEL, A Bookstore (Santa Monica, CA)

November 9: ¡En español! Con Homero Aridjis en la librería Books and Books (Coral Gables, FL)

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Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast."

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