New York City Event: Best Translated Book Awards

Three Percent hosts the Best Translated Book Awards on Wednesday, March 10, at Idlewild books (12 W. 19th St., NYC) from 7 to 9 pm. You can read our coverage of last year's event on Dispatches. Visit Three Percent for a lost of the fiction and poetry finalists. Via

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Recently, the writer and neurologist Alice W. Flaherty has argued that literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that writer's block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.