Stoppard's Darkside
A couple of months ago they aired Tom Stoppard's Pink Floyd/Darkside of the Moon tribute/inspired radio-play, Darkside, on BBC2 radio. (I actually got to hear it, and it's an interesting if odd...
View ArticleJewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the 2014 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize -- though apparently not yet at the official Jewish Quarterly site, last I checked ..... But Booktrade has the...
View ArticleParanoia review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Belarusian author Victor Martinovich's (written-in-Russian) novel, Paranoia. Very reminiscent of the good old bad old days...
View ArticleHoliday site demographics
I assume that the data about the demographics of visitors to this site is not of quite as much interest to most readers as it is to me; still, maybe it is of interest to note that the American...
View ArticleTypographical Translation Award voting
Typographical Era is running a best-translation-of-the-year competition, where visitors vote for the winner -- from a now-finalized shortlist, which was also determined by popular vote....
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Quantifying writing ?
In The New York Times Jennifer Schuessler reports on prolific (and Tirza-) author Arnon Grunberg's The Quantified Writer-project, in Wired: Putting a Writer and Readers to a Test: 'Arnon...
View ArticleNo One Writes Back review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jang Eun-jin's No One Writes Back. This is another in Dalkey Archive Press' new Library of Korean Literature-series -- and...
View ArticleTranslating from ... Tamil
In The Hindu Kausalya Santhanam has a Q & A with translator Lakshmi Holmström, 'Meanings aren't in dictionaries alone'. Interesting that she finds: I think publishers take...
View ArticleFavourite Scottish novel (of past 50 years)
As Helen Croney writes at the Scottish Book Trust weblog, The Favourite Scottish Novel is Revealed as they took a poll: "to find the favourite Scottish novel of the last 50 years". Over...
View ArticlePerumal Murugan profile
In The Caravan, N. Kalyan Raman writes about 'The Kongunadu novels of Perumal Murugan', the Tamil author, in Boats against the Current, offering an interesting introduction into Tamil fiction...
View ArticleLiterature in ... Viet Nam
At VietNamNet Bridge they report that there seems to be a pretty widespread local consensus that in Viet Nam Quality literature in dramatic slump. (Of course, Dương Thu Hương was, for...
View ArticleAndré Schiffrin (1935-2013)
Noted publisher -- especially at Pantheon Books and then at the New Press, which he founded -- André Schiffrin has passed away; see Robert D. McFadden's obituary in The New York Times, André...
View ArticleDecember issues
Some nice winter treats to get you started with in December, as issues of a variety of online periodicals are now available with a load of great reading -- notably: Words without Borders'...
View ArticleGeoffrey Hill Oxford lecture
Poet -- and Oxford Professor of Poetry -- Geoffrey Hill will give his first lecture of the 2013-14 academic year, 'Poetry and "The Democracy of the Dead"'. today at 17:30 Several of his...
View ArticleWriting in ... Cambodia
In The Phnom Penh Post Emily Wight profiles president of the Cambodia Librarians and Documentalists Association Hok Sothik in Bookish champion hopes to boost Cambodia's lost culture of reading,...
View ArticlePublisher profile: Text Publishing
At BookBrunch Text Publishing publisher (and The Ern Malley Affair-author) Michael Heyward discusses: 'how an editorially led Australian independent is going international', in Good,...
View ArticlePublisher profile: And Other Stories
At Africa in Words Katie Reid reports on Publishing a 'Double Negative': And Other Stories' UK/US publication of Ivan Vladislavić. Vladislavić's novel -- recently reviewed here -- is...
View ArticleThe Restoration Game review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ken MacLeod's The Restoration Game -- a nice little surprise I picked up at the library; certainly an author that has piqued my...
View ArticleLiterary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award
They've announced that The City of Devi, by Manil Suri, has won the 2013 Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award. I'm just relieved I haven't reviewed it yet, as I've dealt with too...
View ArticleVietnamese literature in ... France
Tuoi Tre News profiles Doan Cam Thi, The 'matchmaker' of VN literature and the Francophone community, providing some insight into Vietnamese literature in France.
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