The Zoo in Winter Launch Party
Where: St. Marks Books, 31 3rd Avenue New York, NY 10003 Come join Melville House to celebrate the publication of Polina Barskova’s The Zoo in Winter, a collection of her brilliant and intoxicating poetry. Barskova will be joined by the poets Irina Mashinski (Volk) and Genya Turovskaya (The Tides, New Years Party). ...
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New Issue of Bookslut
The new issue of everyone’s favorite provocatively named webmag/blog is now available and includes a few translation-related items. First off, there’s a review of To Hell with Cronje by Ingrid Winterbach and translated from the Afrikaans by Elsa Silke. The review is solid, and starts with a nice bit that ...
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EVENT – Monday, Feb. 21, 2011 – Reading the World Conversation Series: Samuel Hazo & Nirvana Tanoukhi
Our first RTW event of the “spring” (I think we’d better keep that term in quotes for a little while longer, especially in Rochester) is coming up in just a few short weeks. See below for all the advance info that’s fit to print. Reading the World Conversation Series: Samuel Hazo & Nirvana ...
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For Fans of Prizes, German Literature
I know Michael Orthofer always rants about the lack of transparency in what titles have been submitted for particular awards. (I believe the Man Booker is his big target.) Well, the good people at the Goethe Institut directly go against that trend, posting all of the titles submitted for the 2011 Helen and Kurt Wolff ...
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The New Melville House Catalog Looks Damn Good
Haven’t received the hard copy yet, but the online version of Melville House’s Summer Catalog is up, and, to be quite direct, kicks some international literary ass. First off, there’s the new Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake, which is translated by Michael Emmerich. Here’s the line from the copy that ...
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Indra Levy
Where: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625, Boston University Levy presents Engendered by Translation: The Westernesque Femme Fatale in Modern Japanese Literature. Part of Boston University’s Lecture Series in Literary Translation. All lectures are free and open to the public. A discussion will follow the ...
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Cool New Blog on Central European Literature
Over at Ceska Pozice, Michael Stein has launched a new blog dedicated to Central European writing. Obviously, as a new blog, there’s not a ton of posts available yet, but everything that I’ve looked at is very well-written and interesting. Take for example the current piece on the Slovak fiction scene, which ...
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