Ready to Burst review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Frankétienne's Ready to Burst, finally translated into English, by Kaiama L. Glover, and published by Archipelago Books....
View ArticleMarian Schwartz profile
Marian Schwartz was recently awarded one of the 2014 Read Russia Prizes, for her translation of Leonid Yuzefovich's "postmodern whodunit" Harlequin's Costume, and at Russia Beyond the Headlines...
View ArticleNew issue of the Quarterly Conversation
Issue 37 - Fall 2014 of the Quarterly Conversation is now available, with the usual variety of interesting literature under discussion -- well worth setting aside some time for.
View ArticleAnother Man's City review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ch'oe In-ho's Another Man's City, one in the latest batch of titles Dalkey Archive Press is releasing in its Library of Korean...
View ArticleQ&A with Robbe-Grillet-translator
At The New Yorker's Page-Turner weblog Elisabeth Zerofsky has a Q & A with 'D.E. Brooke', the pseudonymous translator of Alain Robbe-Grillet's A Sentimental Novel, about Translating a Novel...
View ArticleScotiabank Giller Prize longlist
They've announced the longlist for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of the leading Canadian fiction prizes ("The first word in fiction", so their tagline ...) which has impressively...
View ArticleDear Committee Members review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Julie Schumacher's Dear Committee Members. I'm a sucker for epistolary novels, and for campus novels, so this was...
View ArticleKapittel festival
The Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech -- Kapittel -- started yesterday and runs through Sunday. Some pretty decent authors lined up -- and definitely...
View ArticleBest International Literary Adaptation film prize
They've announced the winner of this year's Frankfurt Book Fair's film prize for Best International Literary Adaptation, which goes to Anton Corbijn for his John Le Carré adaptation, A Most...
View Article(American) National Book Awards longlists
The (American) National Book Awards have been announcing longlists all week -- one category revealed each day -- but the fiction list, due to be unveiled only today was 'leaked' yesterday, so...
View ArticleLiterary Turk
At Eurozine E. Khayyat wonders How to turn Turk ? (a piece originally published in the Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications), an interesting look at: "The literary history of the Turk".
View ArticleH.C.Artmann-Preis
I think it's pretty neat that the city of Vienna has a (biennial) H.C.Artmann-Preis -- a decent €10,000, and a namesake who isn't exactly one one would expect hidebound bureaucrats and...
View ArticleRomain Gary at 100
Romain Gary is one of the big-name authors celebrating the centenary of their birth in 2014 (others include: Tove Jansson, Julio Cortázar, and Arno Schmidt) and among the more impressive...
View ArticleNewman Prize for Chinese Literature
They've announced that Chu T'ien-Wen [朱天文] Wins 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. The fourth winner of the biennial prize -- after Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, and Yang Mu -- she beat out...
View ArticleOver the Rainbow review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Solomonica de Winter's Over the Rainbow. De Winter was born in 1997, which makes her the currently youngest author with a...
View ArticlePrix Médicis longlists
They've announced the longlists for the prix Médicis -- interesting because they also have a foreign-fiction category. Among the titles to make the best foreign book longlist were the...
View ArticleRoyal Society Winton Prize for Science Books shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for this year's Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books -- looks like interesting stuff (and I hope to get around to reviewing the Philip Ball). The...
View ArticleDaniel Kehlmann Q & A
At Guernica Philip Zimmerman has a Q & A with Daniel Kehlmann: Forging the Artist. Kehlmann's novel F recently came out in English (to surprisingly little notice so far), but in this...
View ArticleUntranslated ! (?)
In the Independent on Sunday Christopher Folwer [sic ?] continues their admirable long-running series on overlooked literature with installment nr. 242 -- considering (some of) what still...
View ArticleBee Time review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mark L. Winston's Lessons from the Hive, in Bee Time.
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