It's a good time to be in NYC if you enjoy international literature and cinema. The PEN World Voices Festival got under way on Monday and includes events with over one hundred writers from forty nations.
And starting tomorrow (a special holiday in the Absinthe home office), the Film Society of the Lincoln Center will be presenting a program of new films from Norway.
Very cool.
But, unfortunately, we will not be there. We will be here.
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