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Photo: Johannes W. Berg.

For the last few years, The Paris Review has cohosted The Norwegian-American Literary Festival, gathering a small group of American and Norwegian writers and critics for a series of informal lectures, interviews, discussions, and music. We’re proud to announce this year’s festival itinerary: coming to New York for three nights this month, May 19,20, and21. All the events below are free and open to the public. We hope to see you there! And yes—that guy in the picture (Torgny Amdam of the Fun Stuff, featuring James Wood on drums) will be performing, too.

Thursday, May 19, at Black Bear Bar (70 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn)

7:00 P.M.
Readings by Rachel Kushner, Ben Marcus, Ben Lerner, and Karl Ove Knausgaard

9:30 P.M.
Music by Eric Pulidowith friends and DJ Panic First

Friday, May 20, at 192 Books (192 Tenth Avenue, Manhattan)

7 P.M.
New Norwegian Literature After Knausgaard: Maja Lunde, Helga Flatland, and Johan Harstadin conversation with Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor at The New Yorker

7:30 P.M.
Alternative Worlds: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Katie Kitamura, Christian Kracht, and Cathrine Knudsen

Saturday, May 21, at Santos Party House (96 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

3 P.M.
The Literature of the Real: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Geir Gulliksen, Kristine Næss, and James Woodin conversation

4 P.M.
The American Short Story Versus the European: Ari Behn, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Ben Marcusin conversation, moderated by Cressida Leyshon

5 P.M.
A performance from Then Silence, a play by Arne Lygre

5:30 P.M.
Memory on Film: Karl Ove Knausgaardin conversation with Joachim Trier

7 P.M.
Music by theFun Stuff