The Princesse de Clèves review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Madame de Lafayette's classic The Princesse de Clèves, in Robin Buss' translation.
View ArticleBook auctions in ... China
In China Daily Mei Jia reports on a Fan of literature -- who did very well recently unloading part of his collection, as: The recent sale at auction for 216 million yuan ($33.9 million) of one...
View ArticleSummer issue of list
The summer issue of list -- 'Books from Korea' -- is now available, and offers quite a variety of information.
View ArticleHéctor Tizón (1929-2012)
Argentine author Héctor Tizón has passed away; see, for example, Andrew Graham-Yooll on A great writer and a wonderful human being in the Buenos Aires Herald. He was represented by...
View ArticleGore Vidal (1925-2012)
American author and celebrity Gore Vidal has passed away -- and you can find an incredible number of articles, obituaries, tributes, dissections, etc. at all your favorite literary (and...
View ArticleAugust issues
Among the August issues of online periodicals now available, Words without Borders offers New Writing from Japan, Part II, while Open Letters Monthly's August issue is also up.
View ArticleSophie Calle's The Address Book
As Rozalia Jovanovic reports at GalleristNY, Sophie Calle's Controversial 'Address Book' Will Be Published as a Book for the First Time. The Address Book sounds pretty clever (though...
View ArticleSpanish and Latin American fiction in ... China
In the Global Times Sun Shuangjie considers A new chapter, as: Spanish and Latin American literature isn't so well known to Chinese people, apart from a handful of writers. But it is gradually...
View ArticleJosé Y. Dalisay, jr. reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two novels by Filipino author José Y. Dalisay Jr. (or, sigh, simply 'Jose Dalisay' for the US edition), published together in...
View ArticleZIBF reports
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair is now on, and there are a couple of (local) reports: - in the Herald Richmore Tera reports that Book Fair goes public - in the Daily News:...
View ArticleSEA Write shortlist
The Thai SEA Write shortlist has been announced, and in the Bangkok Post they report that SEA Write's never wrong, offering brief descriptions of the books in the running. Not that I'm...
View ArticleBook reviewing in ... Nigeria
In The Guardian (Nigeria) Omiko Awa reports that Nigerian authors make bold statements at the Olympics -- and what I found particularly interesting was: Taking a general view of the country's...
View ArticleThe Apology and the Last Days review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Borislav Pekić's 1977 The Apology and the Last Days, now available in English in Northwestern University Press' wonderful...
View Article"Cit-lit" ?
Yes, for all you who thought that Fifty Shades of Grey was some sort of literary nadir: not even close. Adding insult to injury (and financial ruin) Nick March reports in The National that...
View ArticleBrunel University African Poetry Prize
They've announced a new prize, the Brunel University African Poetry Prize: a major new poetry prize of £3000 aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. The prize...
View ArticleRichard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
They've announced that Tim O'Brien will receive the '2012 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award', as part of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
View ArticleZulfikar Ghose Q and A
In The Friday Times Ali Madeeh Hashmi has a Q & A with onetime B.S.Johnson-collaborator Zulfikar Ghose, "Serious writers have dismissed what's demanded by the market". Ghose firmly...
View ArticleProfile: Will Self
In The Observer Elizabeth Day profiles Will Self: 'I don't write for readers'. His Umbrella was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year; it's coming to the US in January from Grove...
View ArticleProfile: James Kelman
In The Scotsman Susan Mansfield has a profile of James Kelman, author of Mo Thought She Was Quirky. One small problem: Kelman's book is titled Mo Said She Was Quirky ..... (But, hey, at...
View ArticleSelf-publishing in ... India
In The Hindu Rasana Atreya descibes My self-publishing journey, as she turned down a traditional publishing contract for her prize-winning manuscript, unwilling to sign away the electronic...
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