Book culture in ... Zimbabwe
In The Herald Fortious Nhambura has a Q & A with Musaemura Zimunya about Preserving reading culture the soul of ZIBF (ZIBF being the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, which just concluded).
View ArticleAge Book of the Year shortlists
They've announced that: "The judges have selected 15 books for the shortlist for this year's Age Book of the Year awards" -- five each in the three categories, fiction, non, and poetry.
View ArticleWell, if Paulo Coelho says so ...
In Folha de S.Paulo Rodrigo Levino profiles mega-bestselling international sensation Paulo Coelho and there, among the wisdom on offer, is, as the headline has it, the bold claim: Ulysses was...
View ArticleSummer Wag's Revue
The summer issue of Wag's Revue is up, and while I find 'leafing' through the pages of the online edition essentially unbearable (single-page, people ! simplest HTML, people !), the content --...
View ArticleCountdown to the Nobel Prize in Literature ?
Last year, long before this time of summer, there was already a flurry of betting opportunities on the Nobel Prize in Literature; see, for example, my 1 July (!) discussion from last year....
View ArticleSeven Houses in France review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Basque author Bernardo Atxaga's Belgian Congo-novel, Seven Houses in France. Disappointingly, the novel is translated not...
View ArticleSjón Q & A
Winstonsdad's Blog has An Interview with the shadow IFFP winner Sjón. As far as his Icelandic recommendations go, both titles are under review at the complete review: I recommend Kristín...
View ArticleOromo character in Amharic literature
Okay, maybe you haven't been waiting for this with bated breath, but at Gadaa.com Hunde Dhugassa reports on Tesfaye Gebreab: The man who created the first Oromo main character in the history of...
View ArticleAlambique
This has some potential: Alambique (ISSN 2167-6577) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to scholarly research and criticism in the fields of science fiction and fantasy originally...
View Article'100 Best-Ever Teen Novels' ?
NPR got 75,220 people to vote for their favorite young adult novels, and now publish the list of Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels. Only one entry is under review at the complete...
View ArticleJohn Banville to pen 'Philip Marlowe'-novel
The Raymond Chandler estate has apparently corralled the most prominent post-ghost-writer since Ian Fleming's let Kingsley Amis write Colonel Sun: yes, as for example Jason Boog reports at...
View ArticleEast African literary takes on Asians
In Frontline Ken Walibora Waliaula considers The Asian 'other', noting that: 'East African literature has elected not only to celebrate but condone the cultural cross-pollination by its...
View ArticleThe Seven Churches review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Gothic Novel of Prague by Miloš Urban, The Seven Churches.
View ArticleHaredi Women's Lit ?
At Tablet Zackary Sholem Berger reports on 'The writers and editors behind the astonishing rise of Orthodox magazines and fiction', in Haredi Women's Lit Explodes. Not books I'm familiar...
View ArticlePost-UK Martin Amis
In The New Republic Martin Amis offers what's billed as An unfond farewell to England (and, especially, surely, the British media), in He's Leaving Home, as he whinges about discusses the...
View Article'World's Top-Earning Authors' ?
In Forbes Jeff Bercovici finds Women On The Rise Among The World's Top-Earning Authors, as they have their (annoyingly presented in slideshow format ...) run-down of what they say are the...
View ArticleJorge Amado centenary
Jorge Amado was born one hundred years ago today and so, for example, as Julia Dias Carneiro reports at the BBC, Jorge Amado: Brazil celebrates its master story-teller. Penguin is...
View ArticleNeurosis time ! (i.e. The seven genres of Russia's literary giants)
At Russia Beyond the Headlines they print Konstantin Milchin's look at how contemporary Russian novelists 'interpret contemporary society while paying tribute to the world's finest literary...
View ArticleSam Tanenhaus Q & A
At The Daily Beast Noah Charney has a Q & A with the longtime head of The New York Times Book Review, Inside the NYT Book Review: 'How I Write' Interviews Sam Tanenhaus....
View ArticleA decade of the Literary Saloon
The complete review is now well into its teens -- the first review was posted back in 1999 -- but today is the ten-year anniversary of the weblog part of the site, the Literary Saloon....
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