Mohsin Hamid Q & As
A couple of Q & As with How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia-author Mohsin Hamid have recently appeared, including 'India is not okay, it's a great country' with Purvaja Sawant in the...
View ArticleIain (M.) Banks (1954-2013)
As widely reported, author Iain (M.) Banks has passed away; see, for example, the obituaries at the BBC and The Guardian, or tributes such as those in The Telegraph by Tom Chivers (Iain Banks...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Russia
At Publishing Perpectives Eugene Gerden reports that Russian Government Targets $100m at Book Industry in Crisis. Among the disturbing data: According to data of the Russian Book...
View ArticleMore Kawabata finds
In Asahi Shimbun Yuka Orii reports that 41 rare pieces by Nobel laureate Kawabata turn up.
View ArticleWalter Jens (1923-2013)
Walter Jens has passed away; see, for example, the DeutscheWelle report German writer and intellectual Walter Jens dies. More essayist than fiction-writer, I nevertheless enjoyed his...
View ArticleThe Spectator archive
The Spectator has put its 1828 to 2008 archive online -- a spectacular trove of material, where: Every page has been scanned and digitised, each article tagged and extracted, so that you can...
View ArticleSummer 2013 Quarterly Conversation
The Summer/2013 issue of the Quarterly Conversation is now available online, covering the usual interesting selection authors and books.
View ArticleQ & A: Frank Wynne
English PEN offers A Word from the Translator - Frank Wynne, a Q & A with him about his translation of Tomás Eloy Martínez's Purgatory.
View ArticleQ & A: Shahrnush Parsipur
In advance of the upcoming Iranian elections, Shaun Randol has a Q & A with Shahrnush Parsipur at Bloomberg, Jailed at Home, Tailed Abroad, Iran Writer on Sex, Voting. I haven't seen...
View ArticleWriting in dialect in ... China
In China Daily Wu Ni reports that New novel sparks interest in dialect literature, as: Jin Yucheng [金宇澄], 61, a senior editor of Shanghai Literature, saturated his 300,000-word novel Blossoms...
View ArticleFaulkner's Nobel medal auction
Sotheby's held an auction of 'Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana' yesterday, but only realized US$3,697,134, as the top-estimate lot, 259, which offered William Faulkner's Nobel...
View ArticleHuid en haar review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Arnon Grunberg's 2010 novel, Huid en haar.
View ArticleSolidaridad Bookshop
I had no idea Filipino author F. Sionil José has a bookstore in Manila, but apparently Solidaridad Bookshop has been around since 1965, and at Rappler Pia Ranada has a nice profile (with lots...
View ArticleRomanian literature abroad
The Romanians are fairly active in trying to get attention for local literature abroad, and they've tried some creative approaches -- I'm disappointed that The Observer's Translation Project...
View ArticleMy Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Patricio Pron's My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain. Pron -- born in 1975 -- was one of Granta's Best of Young...
View ArticleHans Christian Andersen Litteraturpris to Salman Rushdie
They've announced that Salman Rushdie will be getting the 2014 (yes, they like a lot of lead-up time -- presumably to make sure the honoree will actually show) Hans Christian Andersen...
View ArticleThe African review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of 2008 Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clézio's autobiographical The African, just out from David R. Godine.
View ArticleWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
They've announced that The Garden of Evening Mists (by Tan Twan Eng) has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The prize was founded in 2009, and: For the purposes...
View ArticleSzentkuthy renaissance !
hlo reports on (what I hope really is) A Szentkuthy renaissance -- that being Szentkuthy Miklós, of Marginalia on Casanova-fame (or at least moving-towards-fame ...). Great to hear that:...
View ArticleLiterary elitism
It's 'Bloomsday' tomorrow, and in the Irish Times Donald Clarke takes this occasion to complain Who ever decided that James Joyce was 'fun' ? as he finds the embrace of Joyce and all things...
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