Arts Club Event: "Look at Him," by Anna Starobinets, tr. by Katherine E. Young

Friday, September 22, 2023 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT

The Arts Club, in Washington DC, welcomes the Cheuse Center’s visiting writer, Anna Starobinets for a reading from her book, “Look at Him.” The evening will also mark the 7th year anniversary of the Cheuse Fellowship.

On Friday, September 22, 2023, Russian author in exile Anna Starobinets and her translator, Katherine E. Young, will read and discuss the memoir "Look at Him."

"I read the manuscript...through the night, unable to put it down, a memoir of a young woman in Moscow who discovers in the 16th week of her pregnancy that the baby she is carrying has a fatal defect. The book chronicles not only the author’s personal anguish as she contemplates abortion but the inflexibility of the Russian medical system and Russian society in general."

Joanna Chen, Los Angeles Review of Books.

Journalist, scriptwriter, and novelist Anna Starobinets has been called “Russia’s Queen of Horror.” She has published novels, short stories and children's books, and describes herself as writing "horror and supernatural fiction for adults, and also fairy and detective stories for children."

Poet and translator Katherine E. Young has translated prose from Russia and Azerbaijan and poetry from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, Young served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington, Virginia.

Find more about Starobinets and Young here.

The Cheuse Center's mission is to bring writers to America, send graduate student fellows abroad on travel scholarships, and host free programs across the capital region.

Event details:

Where: The Arts Club, located at 2017 I St. NW, Washington, DC 20006

When: Sept 22, 2023 at 6:30pm

Subscribe to our newsletter to get registration information. There are two additional times in Fairfax at George Mason to hear and meet Anna Starobinets - on Wed 20th September at noon; and also at 4:30. For more information please subscribe to our newsletter or contact lmehta@gmu.edu