Iowa Review Interview with Thomas Pletzinger
Thomas Pletzinger’s Funeral for a Dog (translated from the German by Ross Benjamin) has been getting a ton of great attention recently. It was praised in the New York Times and a Powells.com Review-a-Day. The mysterious forces behind the iBookstore chose it as the “Book of the Week.” We’re going to be ...
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Boyd Tonkin on the IFFP Shortlist
Boyd Tonkin’s summary of the IFFP Shortlist appeared in today’s Independent and is a great overview of these six titles: Four works from Latin American writers appeared on the long-list; three still figure here. If the Southern Cone ever went away as a heartland and hotbed of excellence in modern fiction ...
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April Fiction from Asymptote
Asymptote Journal just posted their April 2011 fiction section featuring four interesting works in translation. I first found out about this, because they included an excerpt from Ingrid Winterbach’s The Book of Happenstance, which we’re bringing out in June. The excerpt is fantastic, naturally, but the care ...
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Standard Hotel and PEN World Voices [I'm a Curmudgeon]
As reported by the New York Post, for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, Salman Rushdie selected 10 “American Classics” that will be placed in each of the visiting writer’s rooms. Which I suppose is nice . . . Although it seems like there would’ve been a way to make this book selection a ...
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Ernesto Cardenal Reading Tour
Where: SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY at St. James Church, 155 Main St., Johnson City, NY The tour coincides with the release of Cardenal’s latest work The Origin of Species and Other Poems. The acclaimed poet will be reading from his new collection at this presentation. Please contact Juanita Diaz Cotto with ...
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Guinea Pigs GoodReads Giveaway
Next month we’ll be reissuing The Guinea Pigs by Ludvik Vaculik, a Czech modern classic featuring one of the most memorably odd narrators ever. His sort of befuddled meandering through life (not understanding the strange situation going on at the bank where he works, berated a kid that he mistakes for his son, etc.) is ...
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Piotr Sommer & Bill Martin: Polish Poetry and Translation
Where: Sloan Auditorium, Goergen Hall, 做厙勛圖, Rochester, NY Piotr Sommer (world-renowned Polish poet and translator) will read from his work and discuss Polish literature and translation with Bill Martin, Polish translator and former Literary Program Manager at the Polish Cultural Institute in New York. ...
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