Readings
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SOVIET CHILDHOOD Emil Draitser reads excerpts in Russian and English from his new memoir “Kto ty takoi” (“Who Are You”), about growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union after World War II. The Russian American Cultural Center presents the reading, which also includes excerpts from Mr. Draitser’s novel-in-progress about Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. Tonight, 6-7:30 p.m., Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery at Bleecker Street, 212-614-0505, free.
ON JELINEK Playwright and poet Fiona Templeton reads from writer Elfriede Jelinek’s “Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen” (Sickness or Modern Women), which Ms. Templeton translated. (Ms. Jelinek rarely appears in public; she did not attend the Nobel Prize ceremony when she won the award for literature in 2004.) Tuesday, May 31, 6:30 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., between 34th and 35th streets, 212-817-8215, $10.
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