European Book Club: Spanish
Where: Instituto Cervantes, Amster Yard Gallery, 211 East 49th St (between Second and Third Avenues) The book discussed will be The Truth About the Savolta Case, by Eduardo Mendoza. Click here for more information about this book. The discussion will be moderated by Alejandro Alonso-Nogueira, professor of Contemporary ...
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Stone Upon Stone
It doesn’t take that many pages to figure out that the narrator of Stone Upon Stone is a womanizing, egotistical douche bag. Through a hyperbolic and highly digressive retelling of his life (ironically centered on the construction of a tomb), main man Szymek Pietruszka makes it clear that he is known by all around him ...
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"Lightning" by Jean Echenoz [Read This Next]
This week’s Read This Next title is Lightning by Jean Echenoz, a book that I truly love. Simply put, Echenoz’s charm + Tesla’s crazy genius = Incredibly Engaging Novel. Over the rest of the week, we’ll be posting a few things about Echenoz’s general career (his noir books, his transitional ...
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Chicago Review's New Italian Writing Issue
Over the year, the Chicago Review has put together some brilliant—and lasting—“new writing” issues. The one that jumps to mind is the Polish Fiction issue that Bill Martin guest edited, and which contains a number of Polish authors who have gone on to have full-length books published in English ...
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Open Letter's $4.99 Ebook Pricing
As we announced last week, for the rest of June, all nine of our ebooks will be available for $4.99/title—a pretty good bargain, especially since they’ll go back to the standard $9.99 on July 1st . . . You can find info about all our available ebooks by clicking here here. (In case anyone’s interested, ...
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The Nine-Eyed Agate: A Conversation with Jangbu
Where: Trace Foundation’s Latse Library, 132 Perry Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014 Join us as we celebrate the publication of the most recent work by one of Tibet’s most influential poets, Jangbu (Dorjicering Chenaktsang), and catch a sneak preview of his upcoming documentary Yartsa. The Nine-Eyed Agate: Poems ...
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Tyrant Memory
Contemporary Latin American literature in translation abounds with words of posthumous support from Roberto Bolaño, a blurber par excellence for a generation of writers only now being ushered into the Anglo-American canon, in some cases two decades after first being published. The mild absurdity of this gold standard, ...
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