Book Launch Send Down Einstein

Name: Book Launch Send Down Einstein
Start: 2026-05-30T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-30T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 2184 Lee Road, 44118

Schedule

Sat May 30 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

2184 Lee Road, 44118 | Cleveland Heights, OH

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝟕 𝐩𝐦
We are hosting a book launch for Paul Hecht’s Send Down Einstein, presented by our friend Charles Oberndorf. Charlie will talk about Paul’s life and writings, and will perform a brief reading. A reception will follow. Below is a blurb for the book.
See you at the store,
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A comic and melancholy novel about translation and living between cultures, set during one historic day in Spain: February 21, 1981, the attempted coup against the newborn Spanish democracy.
Early one morning in 1981, Peter Carp, an American poet and translator living in Granada, wakes to the sounds of shouting and the revving of a motorcycle. These interruptions to Peter’s sleep provoke a series of interrelated thoughts, delivered with wry humor, about personal relations in Spain, gossip, the role of women in a patriarchal society, and the after-effects of expelling the Jewish population from Spain in 1492. We are introduced to Peter’s associative view of the world as he draws on a lifetime of reading poetry, of making sense of his own Jewish sensibility, and how it relates to the cultural history of the Spain he has come to love for its music, people, food, and language.