The Cocktail Waitress review
One of the highlights of the fall publishing season is Hard Case Crime having found and now published James M. Cain's last novel, and a review of that much-anticipated title, The Cocktail...
View ArticleLivraria Suburbano Convicto
At Infosurhoy.com Thiago Borges profiles Livraria Suburbano Convicto (which is a hell of a name for a bookstore), 'Brazil's only bookstore specializing in marginal literature', in Brazil:...
View ArticleHoracio Vázquez-Rial (1947-2012)
Argentine-born author Horacio Vázquez-Rial has passed away; see, for example, the EFE report at the Latin American Herald Tribune, Spain's Great Forgotten Writer Horacio Vazquez-Rial Dies....
View ArticlePhilip Roth in legacy-controlling mode
Philip Roth sure as hell appears to be trying to make sure that he's the one who decides exactly what his legacy looks like. First came the news that he's given his seal of approval to...
View ArticleTranslation in ... Viet Nam
As the Viet Nam Writers Association plans to launch a translation center to help promote Vietnamese literature abroad, VNS' Culture Vulture has a Q & A with critic and translator Pham Xuan...
View ArticleIranian fiction in ... Israel
In Al Monitor Elad Zeret reports Persian and Hebrew books to bridge between Iran and Israel, which sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, for now, it looks like a small, one-way street...
View ArticleThe Thursday Night Men review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tonino Benacquista's The Thursday Night Men. I remind you that the original French title was the more appropriate Homo...
View ArticleHoward Jacobson Q & A
In The Observer Elizabeth Day has a Q & A with Howard Jacobson: 'I write fiction. The others write crap'. Gotta like that attitude ...... Also amusing: Do you see a similar...
View ArticleJo Nesbø profile
In the Independent on Sunday James Kidd profiles Jo Nesbo: 'A Norwegian killed a lot of other Norwegians. How proud can you be about that ?' I can't believe The Bat will already be out...
View ArticleYoung Blood gets Wole Soyinka Prize
They've apparently announced the title that has won this year's Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (though not yet at that official site, last I checked ...), and as Ozolua Uhakheme...
View ArticleAriadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Catalan author Salvador Espriu's classic (and often re-worked) Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth, just out from Dalkey Archive...
View ArticleLes Murray as anthologist
In this month's issue of Quadrant, Alan Gould considers Les Murray, Anthologist. Quite a few of Murray's works are under review at the complete review; see our Les Murray-page.
View ArticleMalayalam Science Literature Awards
AS IBN live reports, in the Indian state of Kerala Science Literature Awards announced. While I think it's fiction that should be getting pretty much all the attention, I grant that it's...
View ArticlePalanca Awards for Literature recap
They held the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature last week, the Philippnes' 'most prestigious and longest-running literary contest', and while the official site doesn't have the...
View ArticleLiterary festival previews
In the Jalarta Globe Nico Novito promises that Come October, Literary Heaven in Ubud, as he previews the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, which runs 3-7 October. Meanwhile, in The Sun...
View ArticleSister Hollywood review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of C.K.Stead's 1989 novel, Sister Hollywood. With Aotearoa New Zealand the 2012 Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair...
View ArticleCzech German-language authors
The Prague Daily Monitor reports that a Prague German Literature Cabinet exhibition opens -- at the Prager Literaturhaus deutschsprachiger Autoren (Pražský literární dům autorů německého...
View ArticleThai short stories
In the Bangkok Post Belle Baldoza reports that Dynamic kingdom served up in byte sized portions, reporting on Marcel Barang's translated anthology of 11 Thai Short Stories 2011; see the Thai...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie's memoir
With Salman Rushdie's memoir, Joseph Anton, due out soon (pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- I hope to review it once/if I get my hands on a copy ...) the publicity machine...
View ArticleM-Net Literary Awards shortlists
The M-Net Literary Awards -- "the benchmark honour for South Africa's most talented writers", they say -- have apparently announced their shortlists. Typically, the press release isn't at the...
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