An Evening of International Jewish Literature with Habitus @ the Lit Cafe November 29, 2007

Join us for an evening of words and conversation from the pages of Habitus: A Diaspora Journal. Like the magazine, itself, the program will reach across the globe to bring together unique and emerging voices in international Jewish literature.

Igor Štiks (Sarajevo/Chicago): Author of A Castle in Romagna, which received the Slavic Award for Best First Book, and Elijah’s Chair, which won the Croatian Kiklop Award for the Best Fiction Book of the Year.

Mariano Siskind (Buenos Aires/Boston): Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. In 2007, he published his first novel, Historia del Abasto.

Hosted by Joshua Ellison (New York): Editor of Habitus: A Diaspora Journal.

Official Website: http://www.habitusmag.com