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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...

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Christine 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...

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Self-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...

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Patrick 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....

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McEwan 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.

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Defamation 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...

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For 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...

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Not 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...

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Lagos 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...

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Antonio 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...

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Hatchet 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,...

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Dracula 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...

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Almost 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.

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Context N°23

       Context N°23, from Dalkey Archive Press, is now up -- loads of good stuff to check out.

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Prize: 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...

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Prize: 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...

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Salman 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,...

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transcript 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...

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Prize: 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.

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Hemon 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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