“n+1 Symposium on Roland Barthes: Reflections on the Public, Private Intellectual”

This month, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux published Mourning Diary, the private reflections of famed French philosopher Roland Barthes following his mother’s death in 1977. Tonight, hear Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Howard talk about translating Barthes with Marco Roth, cofounding editor of the literary journal n+1.