1Q84: The Cover
One of the most anticipated books of the year has to be Murakami Haruki’s (or Haruki Murakami’s) 1Q84, an epically long book that Random House is bringing out in October.1 And to warm up the publicity machine, they just released an image of the cover and a blog post from Chip Kidd discussing the ...
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PEN World Voices 2011: Quick Overview
This morning, PEN updated their World Voices page with info about this year’s festival, including a list of participants and a daily schedule listing all the planned events. We’ll give this more coverage as the time grows closer, but for now, here are a few of the highlights from each of the days of the ...
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Reading the World Podcast #9: Martha Collins
Erica Mena and special co-host Mike Schorsch talk with translator and poet Martha Collins about translation as political action, and translation of Vietnamese poetry. Click here for all the past podcasts (which include conversations with Suzanne Jill Levine, Bill Johnston, Esther Allen, Lawrence Venuti, and Susan Harris), ...
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Everybody Please Just Calm the &*%$ Down [We Should All Be Butler]
In honor of Butler’s semi-improbable run to the Final Four, making Brad Stevens the youngest coach in history to make it to two Final Fours, and because it’s true that publishers and bloggers and people in general freak out too much, and because it’s Monday, I’m rerunning this post from last April, ...
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Michael Sells
Where: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625, Boston University Sells presents Translating Ibn al-Arabi’s Translation of Desires, Longing, Lyric, and the Cultural Other. Part of Boston University’s Lecture Series in Literary Translation. All lectures are free and open to the public. A discussion will ...
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Remote Control
I’m just going to fess up right now: I’m a bit of a culture snob. I can’t help it. I don’t know what happened in my upbringing that led me to be this way – that I can’t check out a summer blockbuster without reading the reviews first, that I prefer listening to the local college or independent radio station to ...
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2011 Best Translated Book Award Finalists
After months of reading, discussing, evaluating, and collaborating, the 14 fiction and poetry judges have settled on the 2011 Best Translated Book Award Finalists. Here’s the official press release. Highlights from this year’s fiction list include Ernst Weiss’s Georg Letham: Physician and Murder, translated from ...
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