César Vallejo interview
Pretty neat -- now available online: the first full English translation of a 1931 interview with César Vallejo [via] See also the complete review review of Vallejo's The Complete Poetry.
View ArticlePublishing in ... India
At The New York Times' India Ink weblog Neha Thirani finds that As Book Sales Grow, Publishers Flock to India. Among the ... insights: "The publication of Chetan Bhagat's novel was a...
View ArticleNew issue of World Literature Today
The May/June issue of World Literature Today -- their 350th issue ! -- is now available online -- including a decent number of the reviews from the World Literature in Review-section.
View ArticleBook reviewing observations
At his weblog, American Fiction Notes, Mark Athitakis offers Seven Things I Think I Think About Book Reviews, while at The Atlantic Sarah Fay considers Book Reviews: A Tortured History.
View ArticleI Burn Paris review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Bruno Jasieński's I Burn Paris -- yet another interesting work dug up by estimable Czech publisher Twisted Spoon.
View ArticleGerman literature in translation
In Die Zeit they have a (German) Q & A with New Books in German editor in chief Charlotte Ryland about German fiction in (English) translation (specifically in the UK market) -- why there's...
View ArticleWalden, the ... video game ?
Via Galleycat I learn that: The University of Southern California has received a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce a video game based on the work of Henry David...
View ArticleAlain Mabanckou profile
In The Los Angeles Times Reed Johnson reports that For Alain Mabanckou, breakthrough translates well. Johnson finds: Colloquial and entertaining, Mabanckou's novels fuse an erudite...
View ArticlePlainsong review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Hosaka Kazushi's Plainsong. Good to see this 1990 title available in English (Dalkey Archive Press brought it out last...
View ArticleMuseum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence -- an actual museum, based on his novel, The Museum of Innocence -- opens to the public today, and it sounds pretty damn impressive. The Guardian offers...
View Article'The Taeback Mountains' in English ?
In The Korea Times Kwaak Je-yup reports that Literary masterpiece translated into English, Russian, as: The Taeback Mountains, Jo Jung-rae's 1995 masterpiece and one of the classics of...
View ArticleSpring list
The spring 2012 issue of list - Books from Korea is now available online, with a 'Spotlight on 17 Illustrators'; see the full table of contents. From reviews to articles finding Great...
View ArticleGoogle Translate
At the Google™ - official blog Franz Och looks at Breaking down the language barrier -- six years in, describing some of the evolution and success of Google Translate. Among the...
View ArticleAustralian canon
In The Age Amanda Dunn reports on A loss for words: winning books hit the dust, as: Of the 53 books that have been awarded the Miles Franklin since its inception in 1957, 20 are no longer in...
View ArticleTehran International Book Fair
The Tehran International Book Fair opens today (tomorrow for the general public) and runs through 11 May; as IBNA report, President to inaugurate 25th TIBF (yes, that would be Mahmoud...
View Article'Jewish' fiction ?
In moment they wonder: Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Fiction ? -- and quite few authors, including Geraldine Brooks, Howard Jacobson, A.B. Yehoshua, Walter Mosley, Etgar Keret, and Allegra...
View ArticleThe Corrections, not ready for primetime
As widely reported, HBO has passed on a TV-series-version of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; see, for example, the TVLine report. The pilot was directed and co-written by Noah...
View ArticleConfusion review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Stefan Zweig's Confusion. Pushkin Press brought this -- Anthea Bell's new translation -- out a few years back in the UK,...
View ArticleLiterary weblogs, dead and alive
At El País' Vano oficio-weblog Iván Thays finds Algunos muertos gozan de buena salud -- arguing that it's no longer as easy for (literary) weblogs to make their mark or be relevant....
View ArticleMay issues
Among the May issues of online periodicals now available are the Writing from the Indian Ocean-issue of Words without Borders, and the May issue of Open Letters Monthly.
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