More on The Camp of the Saints
I'm always a bit reluctant to mention Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints -- surely the most awful, in every sense of the word, book under review at the complete review --, but its sadly...
View ArticleBedeutungswelten review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Giwi Margwelaschwili in conversation with Jörg Sundermeier, in Bedeutungswelten. Margwelaschwili's centenary is next year,...
View ArticleWriting in ... Nepal
In The Kathmandu Post Abhi Subedi finds: 'Contemporary Nepali literature does not overtly reflect the chaotic nature of today’s political climate' in exploring How Nepali literature should...
View ArticleAI and creative writing
It's a subject that will be discussed pretty much endlessly for the foreseeable future -- and it's already interesting to see some of the different takes. In Dawn Nasir Abbas Nayyar...
View ArticleTeaching Oulipian writing
In The Oberlin Review Taylor Lindsley writes about how professor Emily Barton Exercises the Unconventional in Course The OuLiPo & Constraint -- Creative Writing course CRWR 291: The OuLiPo...
View ArticleProfile: Helen DeWitt
At El País Rodrigo Naredo profiles the Your Name Here co-author, in Helen DeWitt: ‘Publishers treat authors like outcasts until it’s time to go out and sell books’, as they've released a...
View ArticleProfile: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions gets another nice, big write-up, this time in the Financial Times, where Helen Bain finds that: 'Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue...
View ArticleOrélien's book de-listed from prix Goncourt longlist
I've mentioned the to-do about Thélyson Orélien's C'était ça ou mourir -- with Orélien accused of having used the help of AI to write generate the book -- here and here, and it looks like we're...
View ArticleBulk AI buying of Japanese books ?
At Tom's Hardware Mark Tyson reports Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction --...
View ArticleBookselling in ... South Korea
Some fairly extensive coverage of the local scene, as Anastasia Traynin reports in The Korea Times that Incheon's Baedari Secondhand Bookstore Alley bridges history, welcomes the world....
View ArticleOrélien update
As expected, this French did he-use-AI-? story I mentioned yesterday has quickly spread across the channel, with lots of UK coverage (though, surprisingly, practically none in the US press so...
View ArticleWriters' Trust Fiction Prize shortlist
The Writers' Trust of Canada has announed the shortlist for this year's Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, "Awarding the best Canadian novel or short story collection of the year",...
View ArticleHoneymoon to Nowhere review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Takagi Akimitsu's Honeymoon to Nowhere -- the fourth of Takagi's novels covered at the site.
View ArticleBooker Prize shortlist
They've announced the six titles to make the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize -- "the world's most significant award for a single work of fiction", apparently. The winner will be...
View ArticleFrench literary to-do
Thélyson Orélien's C'était ça ou mourir -- see the Grasset publicity page -- can rightly be considered the 'literary sensation' of the season in France; the author's first novel, it just was...
View ArticleReading in ... Kazakhstan
Like many countries these days, Kazakhstan is reacting to their recently released PISA results; we'll see how much comes of it but still, good to hear that, as Ayana Birbayeva reports at The...
View ArticlePreserving Sotim Ulughzoda
Sotim Ulughzoda does not appear to be well-known abroad, but he's one of Tajikistan's most renowned authors (and translators) -- they even, sort of, re-named a university after him, the Tajik...
View ArticleAmit Chaudhuri Q & A
At Scroll.in Aishani Misra has a Q & A with the author, in ‘The act of writing is un-citizenly’: Amit Chaudhuri talks about his new novel, ‘Château Rouge’. Among his observations:...
View Article'Mausoleum of Poets'
Sort of impressed, given how things are going, that at Press TV Humaira Ahad encourages readers to: Discover Iran: Tabriz’s iconic ‘Mausoleum of Poets,’ where centuries of Persian literary...
View ArticleTanka
At nippon.com Yoshino Taichirō profiles Kang Han-na: A South Korean Poet Finds Her Voice in Japan’s Tanka. Kang explains: Through the refined expression of tanka, I’ve come to learn...
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