Iconoclastic Writer Anca Mizumsky on "Those Who Buy Stars" and on Immigration as Moral Experience
Fri, May 10
|New York
With performative readings by Arianne Banda
Time & Location
May 10, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
New York, 200 E 38th St, New York, NY 10016, USA
About The Event
Phoenix-based writer and psychologist Anca Mizumsky, one of the most poignant voices of Romanian diaspora, talks about immigration as trauma and personal reinvention and the artistic opportunities of a life between cultures, languages, and geographies as part of a European and American launching tour of her novel, Those Who Buy Stars (New Meridian Arts, 2024), a cinematic page-turner about love, power and the urge of immortality in the vein of Umberto Eco and James Clavell. With performative readings from the book by South African-American actress, visual artist, and author Arianne Banda, the star of the Theater for the New City’s “Freedom Summer”.
Anca Mizumsky is a Romanian author who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Her works include: East (poems, 1993), Letter of Discharge (poems, 1995), Paper Guillotine (poems, 2008), Anca of Noah’s Ark (poems, 2009), Beyond (poems, 2010), In the Softness of the Sky (poems, 2012); Far from Hemingway (short stories,…