Stoppard's Dark Side of the Moon-radio play
Tom Stoppard's radio play to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's classic album, Dark Side of the Moon, Darkside, is being aired on BBCRadio2 today at 22:00 GMT -- though fortunately...
View ArticleBoris Pahor celebrates 100th birthday
It isn't too often that you can wish a living author a happy hundredth birthday to, but today you can: Slovenian great Boris Pahor hits a hundred today, and is apparently still going strong;...
View ArticleMore Salinger
As widely reported, J.D.Salinger is apparently joining the ranks of the posthumously-published -- differing, however, from the usual case (desperate heirs flogging every last scrap left behind...
View ArticleThe President's Hat review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Antoine Laurain's novel, The President's Hat (featuring François Mitterrand's chapeau), out from Gallic Books. Much as I...
View ArticleLiterary journals in ... Pakistan
In Dawn Rauf Parekh finds that in Pakistan It's raining literary journals this summer, as: Whether people read or not, whether Urdu literature is as popular or not as it used to be, the fact is...
View ArticleSeptember/October issue of World Literature Today
The September/October issue of World Literature Today, focused on 'Queer Lit in the 21st Century', is now available, with a good portion accessible online (though not, disappointingly, the...
View ArticleGoethe Medal ceremony
They announced who would be getting these a while back, but today is when they hold the official ceremony handing out the Goethe Medals 2013. The idea is to: honour figures who have...
View ArticleAlat Asem profile
In China Daily Liu Jun profiles a Niche literary leader, Uygur writer Alat Asem. You don't find much Uygur fiction in English translation ..... (Unrelated take-away from the...
View ArticleAndrey Kurkov profile
In The Telegraph Jake Kerridge profiles Russian-writing Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov: 'Before starting to hate or love, you analyse'; see, for example, the complete review review of his Death...
View ArticleThe Parrots review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Filippo Bologna's The Parrots. It seems a good time to get to this literary-prize satire, given that we are just entering...
View Article(Mrs.) Knausgaard's Helioskatastrofen
My Struggle-author Karl Ove Knausgaard has gotten lots of attention -- especially in Scandinavia, but also in the US and UK -- but his wife, Linda Boström Knausgård, has also been publishing,...
View ArticleLeft behind books
The always fun Travelodge survey of which books are most left behind by guests at their hotels is out; see, for example, Liz Bury's piece in The Guardian with the full top-twenty list....
View ArticleCairo bookshop profile
At Deutsche Welle Holger Heimann writes about The dangerous job of selling books in Cairo, profiling "the famous German bookshop Lehnert & Landrock in downtown Cairo". Sad to hear...
View ArticleLaziest literary list ever ?
There are some sites that I will only link to in extremis, because the site-pages are so annoyingly busy, or otherwise so unpleasant to deal with/navigate that regardless of the content I'd...
View ArticleWarwick Prize for Writing shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the biennial (but now apparently themeless) Warwick Prize for Writing -- "unique as an international, cross-disciplinary award open to substantial pieces of...
View ArticlePublishing translations
Ross Ufberg, co-founder of New Vessel Press, thinks the publishing-in-translation scene is looking pretty good nowadays, in a piece at Publishing Perspectives, Of Saint Jerome and Prostitutes...
View ArticleAndrea Hirata profile
In the Los Angeles Review of Books Pallavi Aiyar writes 'On Andrea Hirata and the bestselling Indonesian novel of all time', in The Rainbow Troops: A Visit with Indonesia's Bestselling Author....
View ArticleRuth Franklin Q & A
Prospect is running a series of 'Critical thinking'- Q & As "about the art of criticism", and in this month's installment David Wolf has An interview with the literary critic Ruth Franklin....
View ArticleSeamus Heaney (1939-2013)
As very widely reported, 1995 Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has passed away. I can't really add much to the many, many pieces that have appeared in the past day (and I'm afraid none of...
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