Waiting for Sunrise review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of William Boyd's Waiting for Sunrise -- Freud's Vienna, espionage in World War I, acting v. real life .....
View ArticleVargas Llosa bequeaths library to hometown
Mario Vargas Llosa has announced that he's donating his personal library of over 30,000 volumes to his Peruvian hometown of Arequipa; see, for example, the AP report (here at The Washington...
View ArticleArgentine book import restrictions
There's been a lot about this in the Spanish-language media, but little so far in English, but now at the Financial Times' beyondbrics weblog Jude Webber reports on the nutty new Argentina:...
View ArticlePhantom Lights review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a collection of Miyamoto Teru stories, Phantom Lights. The book is published by Kurodahan Press, whose interesting list --...
View Articlesignandsight.com closes down
Anja Seeliger and Thierry Chervel post the sad news that Signandsight.com says good-bye, as: After seven years we are shutting down signandsight.com. The site will remain online, but for now no...
View Articleგათვლა review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a Georgian author Tamta Melaschwili's prize-winning novella, გათვლა. With a Dalkey Archive Press anthology of contemporary...
View ArticleDiagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year
Yes, as Philip Stone reports in The Bookseller, they've announced the winner of this year's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year -- and Cooking with Poo scoops Odd-Title Prize....
View ArticleRoyal translator
The Bangkok Post has a little item about a book launch, of the Thai translation of Wang Anyi's 小鮑莊 (published in English as Baotown), and while it's nice to see this book becoming available in...
View ArticleThe Case of the General's Thumb review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrey Kurkov's The Case of the General's Thumb, now out in a US edition, from Melville House.
View ArticlePatrick White reactions
With Patrick White's posthumous The Hanging Garden coming out in Australia and the UK (the US ? who knows ...) there's been quite a bit of coverage -- see also my recent mention. Richard...
View ArticleBookselling in ... Russia
In Publishers Weekly Teri Tan reports on Publishing In Russia 2012: Growing the Digital Side of the Business.
View ArticleFSG to publish Indonesian novel
So at first glance this sounds pretty great: as the Jakarta Globe reports, 'Laskar Pelangi' Gets US Book Deal, as: In a big step for Indonesian literature on the world stage, American publisher...
View ArticleReturn of the Calabash
Good to hear that, as Sadeke Brooks reports in The Sunday Gleaner, the Calabash International Literary Festival will be held again this year, on 25 to 27 May (it wasn't in 2011 -- and its...
View ArticleHindi in India
In The Caravan Rashmi Sadana writes about 'How we live multilingually and what this says about our language and literature', in Managing Hindi.
View ArticleCzech Book Award
Via literalab I learn that they've announced the 20-title strong longlist for the new Czech Book Award. Nicely internationally oriented -- English and French webpages, too (though not,...
View ArticlePublic Enemies review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy exchange, Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World.
View ArticleApril issues
Among April issues of online periodicals now available is Words without Borders' Sex-issue, as well as the new issue of Open Letters Monthly.
View ArticleBookselling in: Hungary
hlo reports the disturbing numbers that Hungarian book market: 26 per cent loss in three years. Among the few bright spots: Fiction has also preserved its position in the market. The 20...
View ArticleBookselling in: the US
Amy Martinez's story on how Amazon.com trying to wring deep discounts from publishers in the Seattle Times is worth a look -- and quite disturbing.
View ArticleBookselling in: India
In The Hindu Vijay Nair wonders about the Deathknell for the bookstore ? as: Back home in India, large retail chains are a comparatively recent phenomenon for books and their patrons. Some of...
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