E-books in ... France
In L'Express Emmanuel Paquette has a Q & A with French publisher Antoine Gallimard -- who warns: "Amazon veut tuer la concurrence" ('Amazon wants to kill (the) competition'). But don't...
View ArticleChristine Brooke-Rose (1923-2012)
Very sad to hear that the truly innovative Christine Brooke-Rose has passed away; see, for example, the note at PN Review (and bad show elsewhere: no obits up yet, as I write this). With...
View ArticleSelf-publishing and translation
At paidContent Laura Hazard Owen reports on The Next Self-Publishing Frontier: E-Books In Translation. Author Barbara Freethy is the example here, and she reports: I hired a translator...
View ArticlePatrick White's The Hanging Garden
Patrick White's posthumous The Hanging Garden is due out soon -- in the UK and Australia, at least -- and The Age has 'an edited extract of the afterword' by David Marr, Fragments & furies....
View ArticleMcEwan on originality and collaboration
The Guardian prints 'an edited version of a lecture first given in Santiago, Chile' in which Ian McEwan 'reflects on originality and collaboration', The originality of the species.
View ArticleDefamation in ... Armenia
While always disappointing to see censorship and measures taken against an author and/or a book, it's somehow still heartening that a book with a print run of only 300 (of which only 120 have...
View ArticleFor and against meanness in book reviewing
In The Washington Post's The Style Blog Ron Charles comments on a recent piece [not freely accessible] by Arthur Krystal in the Chronicle of Higher Education, leading him to wonder about...
View ArticleNot quite a review of The Paradox of Love
Pascal Bruckner's The Paradox of Love is one of those books I just did not know what to do with -- throwing it away in frustration and never mentioning it seemed like the best option, but I...
View ArticleLagos Review of Books and Society
In the Daily Times Michael Jimoh reviews the inaugural issue of the Lagos Review of Books and Society, in A literary magazine at last. There doesn't seem to be a corresponding website...
View ArticleAntonio Tabucchi (1943-2012)
Sad to hear that Italian author Antonio Tabucchi has passed away. A very fine author, who wrote not only In Italian but also in Portuguese; New Directions has published many of his works in the...
View ArticleHatchet Job winner gets hatcheted
Just recently Adam Mars-Jones won the first Hatchet Job of the Year Award -- awarded for: "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review" of the year -- and now he finds himself hatcheted,...
View ArticleDracula contract
In the Independent on Sunday Paul Bignell reports that Dracula's contract to see the light of day 100 years on -- meaning the contract Bram Stoker drew up for the UK rights for Dracula, for...
View ArticleAlmost Never review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Daniel Sada's eagerly awaited Almost Never -- the first of his books available in English.
View ArticleContext N°23
Context N°23, from Dalkey Archive Press, is now up -- loads of good stuff to check out.
View ArticlePrize: Premio Alfaguara de Novela
They've announced that Una misma noche, by Leopoldo Brizuela, has been awarded the Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2012 -- selected from 785 submissions (whingeing Man Booker Prize judges: take note...
View ArticlePrize: International Prize for Arabic Fiction
They've announced that The Druze of Belgrade [دروز بلغراد] by Rabee Jaber wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2012, now in its fifth year. Arabic Literature (in English) has some...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie's India Today Conclave speech
Great to see that they've posted a full transcript of Salman Rushdie's full speech at India Today Conclave 2012 (see also my previous mention about that whole to-do). A solid speech,...
View Articletranscript 39 - Estonia
An new issue of transcript is now available online -- devoted to Estonian literature. From Sirje Olesk on Two ways to write about Estonian history: Ene Mihkelson and Sofi Oksanen to a variety...
View ArticlePrize: Miles Franklin longlist
They've announced the longlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award, one of the most prestigious -- and now, at $50,000 (Australian), remunerative -- Australian literary prizes.
View ArticleHemon and Krauss on literature in translation
In Capital Jacob Silverman reports that In Brooklyn, Aleksandar Hemon and Nicole Krauss make the case for internationalist literature -- as: Like some partisans of translated literature, Hemon...
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