Zimbabwe International Book Fair
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair apparently runs 30 July through 2 August, with a theme of 'Indigenous Languages, Literature, Art and Knowledge Systems of Africa' (certainly a worthy one --...
View ArticleSEA Write Award shortlist
The 2014 SEA Write Award is for short-stories (prized genres are rotated, year by year), and they've announced the Thai shortlist: as Kaona Pongpipat reports in the Bangkok Post, SEA Write...
View ArticleNazi(-era) Krimis
A pretty good idea for an anthology: Nazi-era crime fiction -- Krimis, as they're called in German. A French anthology, presented and translated by Vincent Platini, came out a few months ago:...
View ArticleThe Kills review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Richard House's The Kills. Man Booker-longlisted last year in the UK, it is now coming out in the US; I'm curious how it...
View ArticleUtter 2014
Yeah, I'm not really sure about that name, but this initiative of the Singapore Writers Festival, Utter 2014, sounds reasonably interesting. As they explain: Utter is a special SWF...
View ArticleFLIP 2014
The Brazilian literary festival, Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, runs today through 3 August. Always a good line-up -- including what they're billing as their first Russian...
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Author appearances
As longtime readers know, I'm not a big fan of taking into account much (especially of the personal/personality/appearance sort) about authors when it comes to literary appreciation -- a losing...
View ArticleGerman literary prizes
The flood of German literary prizes is apparently unceasing. The latest: They've announced that Angelika Klüssendorf has won the Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis 2014 (worth €15,000; to be awarded...
View Article2014 PEN Literary Awards
They've announced (most of) the 2014 PEN Literary Award winners. (The winners of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize -- for a debut work of fiction -- and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement...
View ArticleThe Walls of Delhi review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a collection of three stories by Uday Prakash, The Walls of Delhi. Just as last year his The Girl with the Golden Parasol...
View ArticleBookslut Jessa Crispin moves on
The complete review went online way back in 1999, but it started solely a book review site; this Literary Saloon weblog was only added in August, 2002 (yes, the twelve-year-anniversary is...
View ArticleKenneth Fearing/prose and politics
At Tablet Ron Capshaw reminds readers that The Forgotten Founder of 'Partisan Review' Wrote Porn and Thrillers -- looking, sort of, at: 'What happened when Kenneth Fearing's Communist...
View ArticleHard to be a God review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1964 classic, Hard to be a God, just out in a (long overdue) new translation by Olena Bormashenko,...
View ArticleAugust issues
Some August issues of online periodicals are out, including Words without Borders' A New North: Contemporary Writing from Finland-issue (with a timely bonus of: 'New Writing from Ukraine')....
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Hermans' typewriters
I think I must make a pilgimage to Belgian Ghent, to the Limerick bookstore; from afar I express my great admiration for their Hermans kamer, a room -- shrine ! -- holding the ... typewriter...
View ArticleWriting (in English) in ... Bangladesh
Shougat Dasgupta's piece in The Caravan on how 'Bangladeshi writing in English joins a global conversation', East Is East, is from last month, but is only now freely accessible online -- well...
View Article'Light' Hungarian reads
At hlo they try to: "combat the view of Hungarians as gloomy and serious" by making a few suggestions for Holiday reads with a bit of a lighter side. Three of the four titles are...
View ArticleEvie Wyld Q & A
At Guernica Meara Sharma has a Q & A with Evie Wyld, Felt Not Known. Wyld has been racking up the literary prizes -- including recently the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for All The...
View ArticleZIBF reports
I haven't found much coverage of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair but a brief report in The Herald summarizes ZIBF: Writers challenged to preserve culture, norms and Stanely Mushava sums...
View Article(Erotic) writing in ... India
In the New Indian Express Shilpa Raina looks Between the Sheets: Sex and Sensuality in Indian Literature, as the country of the Kama Sutra has long also had a very prudish side. I'm not...
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