Monday, October 4th, 8 pm: The Cafe Irreal International Imagination

Since it first went online in 1998, the Internet journal The Cafe Irreal has published stories by over 130 different authors from 18 different countries. True to its origins in Prague -- and its mission of publishing fiction of the sort that Franz Kafka wrote - it has published many translations of contemporary Czech authors. In tonight's program G.S. Evans, Cafe Irreal coeditor, will read from these Czech translations. This sampling of imaginative fiction from contemporary Czech authors will include stories by Marian Palla, Ewald Murrer, Vít Erban, Josef Janda, J. Valoch, V. Chase, and Jiri Kratochvil.

G.S. Evans is a writer and translator who has been dividing his time between The Czech Republic and the United States since 1993. An excerpt from his short novel, "The Secret Czech Diary of Frederick Baron," translated into Czech, recently appeared in the Czech literary monthly Host

Visit: www.cafeirreal.com