Modern literature

The European Literature Night initiative which aims to make access to the cultures of different communities easier has been growing more and more popular in Bulgaria.

Australian writer Gillian Bouras, a resident of Greece since the 1980s, presents her latest book of humorous and heartfelt observations on life in the Peloponnese at the Athens Center, on Wednesday, March 22, starting at 7 p.m. In "Seeing and Believing," say the organizers, Bouras "delivers a fresh crop of joys and heartaches, to which she tries to adjust.

?A Useless Man: Selected Stories? by Sait Faik Abas?yan?k translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe (Archipelago Books, 240 pages, $18)