Prague Writers' Festival
The Prague Writers' Festival runs 14-18 April; among the featured authors: Juan Goytisolo, Tirza-author Arnon Grunberg, and Case Closed-author Patrik Ouředník. At Radio Praha Sarah...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Russia
In Publishers Weekly they have a Q & A, Publishing in Russia 2012: Vladimir Grigoriev on the Russian Book Market .
View ArticleMany Subtle Channels review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Daniel Levin Becker's insider-account of the Oulipo, as he writes In Praise of Potential Literature in Many Subtle Channels.
View ArticleForthcoming J.K.Rowling novel
Harry Potter-author J.K.Rowling announced that she's publishing a new (and apparently entirely muggles-populated) novel this fall, The Casual Vacancy. I didn't really think this was of...
View ArticleGrass and the Nobel
I couldn't really be bothered to weigh in on the Günter Grass-poem fallout -- fascinating and entertaining though it has been -- but then you've surely been able to find your fill elsewhere....
View ArticleReview of Australian Fiction
In The Australian Geordie Williamson profiles the Review of Australian Fiction, in Arriving on a different platform -- noting: Of course the Review is not the first of its kind. Literary...
View ArticleTrainspotting influence
In the Independent on Sunday Doug Johnstone profiles the classic novel and its author, in Irvine Welsh: We're all Trainspotters now, where 'The Scottish author -- and the young writers he...
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Cover design complaint
As longtime readers know, I'm not a big fan of (elaborate) book covers -- the simpler the better (preferably: title; author name; and no 'design' or illustrations). But a particular pet peeve I...
View ArticleEasy Money review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jens Lapidus' Easy Money. Yet another 'next Stieg Larsson' contender/wannabe out of Scandinavia -- and, yes, the first...
View ArticleLondon Book Fair
The London Book Fair runs today through Wednesday -- with the Market Focus 2012 on China (which has been receiving much of the pre-fair attention). In China Daily Mei Jia reports,...
View ArticleNew Asymptote
The April issue of Asymptote -- a journal: "dedicated to literary translation and bringing together in one place the best in contemporary writing" -- is now available online, and there is a lot...
View ArticlePulitzers
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday -- except in Fiction (and Editorial Writing), where they couldn't settle on a winner and so decided: no prize. The three fiction...
View ArticleIgnorance review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Stuart Firestein on Ignorance: How it Drives Science.
View ArticleGlobalectics review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing.
View ArticleLos Angeles Review of Books (re)launch
The Los Angeles Review of Books has launched its new website, finally moving from the abomination that is the tumblr platform. It certainly looks good -- though it may take some getting used to...
View ArticleRoadside Picnic review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the new translation (by Olena Bormashenko) of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's classic, Roadside Picnic, that Chicago Review Press...
View Article1Q84 paperback edition (and sales figures)
I haven't been able to find a picture of it yet, but in The New York Times Julie Bosman reports that there will be a Special Treatment for Murakami Paperback, as his 1Q84 will be: published as...
View ArticleOrange Prize shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction, "the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman".
View ArticlePurge, the opera
Yes, now Sofi Oksanen's Purge has been turned into an opera -- though I'm not sure what to make of the fact that, as Helsingin Sanomat has it, Opera based on Sofi Oksanen novel came to Estonian...
View ArticleÖrkény at 100
At hlo they note that István Örkény was born 100 years ago, and offer a decent little overview. Only one Örkény-title is under review at the complete review, a collection of his One...
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