Another Book to Add to the To Read List
One of my favorite writers from the past few years has to be Enrique Vila-Matas, whose Bartleby & Co. and Montano’s Malady are absolutely fantastic. Very excited that Vila-Matas wrote an intro for our forthcoming publication of Sergio Chejfec’s My Two Worlds, and also very excited to read his new book, Never ...
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Perec and "Matrix Literature"
Susan Bernofsky’s very interesting post about David Bellos’s very interesting comments about this very interesting sounding book is yet one more reason to rush out and start reading (and rereading) Perec: David Bellos spoke at NYU’s Maison Française last night, presenting his new translation of ...
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Zift
Published in Bulgarian in 2006, Vladislav Todorov’s debut novel Zift has been recently translated into English by Joseph Benatov and published by Paul Dry Books. The very title of Todorov’s novel Zift: Socialist Noir announces the text’s generic ambiguity. Most notably, the novel interweaves the key tropes of Soviet ...
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Sebald Lecture: Ali Smith
The 2011 Sebald Lecture, which was given by Ali Smith on January 31st and entitled “Loosed in Translation,” is now available to listen to online thanks to the British Centre for Literary ...
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Festival of New French Writing: Atiq Rahimi
As I mentioned earlier, I participated in the Festival of New French Writing that took place in NYC a couple weeks back. It was a great festival, and I had every intention of writing up most of the panels . . . but, well. Thankfully, freelance writer and audio engineer JK Fowler1 interviewed a couple of the French writers ...
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DiscoverReads, Let Downs, and "Books"
As written about in today’s New York Times GoodReads (which has come a bit of an obsession of mine) has just launched a new site called DiscoverReads that uses an algorithm to recommend books. (Book recommendations and how people choose what to read is another obsession of mine, so this announcement is like a double ...
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Quim Monzo's "Gregor" at Numero Cinq
Back when I was at Dalkey, we published a fantastic short story collection entitled Bad News of the Heart by Douglas Glover. The stories in there are touching, very funny, and incredibly well-crafted. Douglas went on to “win the Governor General’s ...
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