Profile: Tom Stoppard
At More Intelligent Life Victoria Glendinning profiles Tom Stoppard at some length. See also reviews of many of Tom Stoppard's works at the complete review.
View ArticleProfile: Herman Koch
Herman Koch's The Dinner is finally available in English -- at least in the UK (get your copy at Amazon.co.uk; American readers will have to wait (no doubt for some very reasonable reason and...
View ArticleLiterary soap ?
AFP report that in Austria: after 'Sound of Music', smell of music ? reporting on Lederhaas Cosmetics, run by Wolfgang Lederhaas: This Austrian philosophy professor gave up a successful...
View ArticleEarly Nobel Prize odds ...
So Unibet have posted odds for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature (to be announced in October). I hesitate to even bother with these, but in the continued absence of the much-anticipated...
View Articlebinooki profile
At Deutsche Welle Gavin Blackburn reports that Two sisters bring Turkish literature to Germany, profiling their binooki publishing house.
View Article'The Bhagat Brandwagon'
Nilanjana Roy writes about The Bhagat Brandwagon -- as in Chetan Bhagat, of course (see, for example, my review of his Five Point Someone).
View ArticlePatrick White's Happy Valley
In the Sydney Morning Herald Susan Wyndham suggests that there's Still room for younger White to be popular again: If Patrick White is ever to have another chance at popularity, this is it. The...
View ArticleMalayalam -- a classical language ?
In The Asian Age Teena Thacker reports that Malayalam may get classical language status. Maybe a sign that they've gotten a bit too bureaucratic in India, that the government actually...
View ArticleDayton Literary Peace Prize finalists
They've announced the finalists for the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction (which: "honors writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social...
View ArticlePlace your bets ! Ladbrokes sets Nobel odds
Okay, everybody: now the fun starts -- Ladbrokes have posted odds on the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Just a few days ago I discussed the first Nobel Prize odds to go up, from Unibet...
View ArticleSeven Days review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Deon Meyer's new thriller, Seven Days. (What's with the sevens, by the way -- this is the third book I've reviewed whose...
View ArticleNew World Literature Today
The September/October issue of World Literature Today is now (partially) available online -- including the entire (and always worthwhile) review section. Everything is worth your closer...
View ArticlePremio de Traducción Literaria Tomás Segovia
Okay, it's not always about the money, and the big dollar signs shouldn't blind us ... but I still say: lets us all pay proper homage and acknowledge that this is an awesome thing: in Mexico...
View ArticleKrasznahorkai László profile
In The Guardian Richard Lea has a nice profile of Krasznahorkai László (whose Satantango seems to have made quite an impression). I like the concluding bit: He gestures to the computer...
View ArticleAmélie Nothomb
Amélie Nothomb has been publishing a book a year for over two decades now (while churning out considerably more -- most for the drawer: as she notes, her newest, Barbe bleue (see the Albin...
View ArticleHoward Jacobson on reading and readers
In The Independent Howard Jacobson's column is headlined: Suddenly everyone wants to talk about books, but nobody wants to read them -- though the piece itself suggests things aren't quite so...
View ArticleThe Bookscore
Via Molly Driscoll's post, The Bookscore: the new Rotten Tomatoes for books ? at the Christian Science Monitor's chapter & verse weblog I learn about yet another new book-review aggregator...
View ArticleThe Garden of Evening Mists review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tan Twan Eng's Man Booker-longlisted novel, The Garden of Evening Mists.
View Article'Book reviewing' as a business
In The New York Times David Streitfeld reports on The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy, with a lengthy case study of someone who was willing to tap into everyone's lowest instincts and make an...
View ArticleJames Tait Black Prizes
They've announced the winners of the James Tait Black Prizes, with You and I (published in the US as: You & Me ...) by Padgett Powell taking the fiction prize.
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