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The Continental Literary Magazine is a quarterly literary review featuring the best American contemporary writers along with writings by the brightest minds of Central Europe. Featuring English translations of works by promising emerging writers as well as by fiction authors from the region who have already achieved world renown and established themselves as major writers in English, The Continental focuses on the literature of Central Europe with the aim of creating a platform for contemporary Central European writers in the North American literary market.
On November 8, 2022 the first stop of the Continental Literary Magazine's tour will take place at the American Writers Museum in Chicago, featuring Sándor Jászberényi, editor-in-chief of the Magazine, who moderates a panel of writers aimed at promoting cultural exchange between Central Europe and the writers of the United States. In tumultuous and dangerous times like the ones we currently face, literature becomes even more important, as these writers demonstrate. Máté Makai, author of the 4th NOIR issue, and Dániel Levente Pál, executive director of The Continental Literary Magazine, join Jászberényi in conversation on this important topic.
On November 10, 2022 the Greenlight Bookstore in New York welcomes Editor-in-Chief Sándor Jászberényi, Executive Director Dániel Levente Pál, and contributor Máté Makai for an evening featuring The Continental's latest issue, Noir. Whether noir is a genre or a style is hard to say, but its trademark features are known to all from cinema, literature, and comic books. Hardboiled detectives, dark alleyways, rain, and estrangement figure into this shadowy, atmospheric collection.
Further destinations of the tour:
- 2022 November 11, 12PM - American Hungarian Library (215 E 82nd St, New York, NY 10028)
- 2022 November 12, 10AM - 2PM - American Hungarian Foundation (300 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903)
About the speakers
SÁNDOR JÁSZBERÉNYI is editor-in-chief of The Continental Literary Magazine . Jászberényi is also the author of The Devil Is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond (New Europe Books, 2014). In 2017 he received Hungary’s Libri Literary Prize. As a correspondent for Hungarian news sites, he has covered the conflict with Islamic State, unrest in Ukraine, the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, and the Gaza War. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Magazine, AGNI, and the Brooklyn Rail. He divides his time between Budapest and Cairo.
MÁTÉ MAKAI (1986, Hungary) born in Veszprém and living in Szentendre, is a writer, critic, and journalist. His second volume Az Atlantis felemelkedése (The Rise of Atlantis), published by Kalligram Publishing House in 2022, contains dystopian experiments regarding an imagined near future. He works full-time managing a Hungarian designer brand and his psychedelic pop-rock musical formation goes by the name of The Monoment. In his free time, he plays guitar and football.
DÁNIEL LEVENTE PÁL (1982) is executive director of The Continental Literary Magazine as well as a poet, writer, circus dramaturg and director. He is the author of five poetry collections and two books of short stories. His writings have been translated into English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, Romanian, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese and Thai. Since 2016, he has been working for the Capital Circus of Budapest as a playwright and dramaturg. As a circus director he won the Staféta Prize and the Special Prize of the 13th Budapest International Circus Festival.