Indian Literature and the Book Business in the 21st Century
Thanks to Annie Janusch for bringing Chandrahas Choudhury’s survey of Indian literature and the book business to our attention. It’s a pretty general piece, but has some interesting info about trends in India: India’s book economy is, however, on a different arc, from that of the West and, like the Indian ...
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Reading the World Conversation Series: Announcing Our Spring 2011 Events
Extended details on all three events are in the queue. In the meantime, though, here’s a rundown of the schedule for this spring’s Reading the World Conversation Series. These events are hosted by Open Letter and °µÍø³Ô¹Ï Arts & Sciences, and all events are supported in part by the ...
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French Voices 2010
Launched in 2006, the French Voices program exists to promote contemporary (re: published after 2000) works of French literature. To that end, every year they come out with a list of titles (fiction and non) selected by their international committee that will receive $6,000 translation subsidies. As you can see from the ...
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The Facts Behind One Story in Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction for 2011
The following was written by Mima Simić regarding her recent experiences in publishing “My Girlfriend” in the Best European Fiction 2011 anthology. Enjoy! Best European Fiction for 2011 has hit the bookstores and review sections of your favorite cultural papers, but there’s some pretty bad non-fiction ...
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Prefacing a New Series of Posts [We Are Not Muckrakers]
Before posting Mima Simić‘s story of the offensive edits done to the story/translation of hers that appeared in this year’s Best European Fiction volume from Dalkey Archive Press, feel like I should provide a sort of frame and preface that explains my professional interests and personal concerns about running ...
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One Hundred Bottles
When Z. was a child in Havana she learned how to disassemble and reassemble the engines of classic American cars. Z., the narrator of Ena LucÃa Portela’s One Hundred Bottles, describes this skill as the most useful thing she knows, and her aptitude at the art of reconstruction is made beautifully clear in this compact but ...
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European Literature Prize Longlist
At some point while I’m housebound thanks to the Colossal Snowpocalypse of the Century tm I’ll finish tweaking the write-up of the speech I gave in Amsterdam at the Nonfiction Conference, post part of that and write up some stuff about how fantastic this conference was. (If you look at the list of speakers ...
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