Robert Walser: The Microscripts, with Susan Bernofsky and Rivka Galchen

Saturday, May 22, 6 p.m.

177 Livingston (downtown Brooklyn)

$3 donation [unofficial rebate: free book from Walser & Co. if you go and comment below]

Walser biographer and translator [and writer and superhero] Susan Bernofsky teams up with writer Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances  [and, in the May Harper's, "From the pencil zone: Robert Walser's masterworklets" (subscribe already]) to introduce stories from and about Walser’s enigmatic microscripts, late texts written on scraps of paper in a millimeter-scale hand, which will be published on May 25 by New Directions and Christine Burgin Gallery.

Stories, a trivia quiz with prizes [!], larger-than-life secret manuscript pictures [!!], and a German penmanship lesson [!!!].

Advance copies of Microscripts [hands up the most beautiful $25 book ever published: heavy paper, full color, plus they actually glued a live microscript to the front cover, tucked elegantly beneath the decoy jacket like so: READ MORE >