Ebooks, Literary Fiction, and the WSJ
OK, so typically I like—or at least highly respect—Jeffrey Trachtenberg’s Wall Street Journal articles about publishing. He’s one of the better book reporters out there, and it’s nice that the WSJ covers our little industry. But his new piece, Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books, is a bit ...
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Some Kind of Beautiful Signal
Still pounding out some pieces for the Publishing Perspectives Show Daily, so I’ll have to make this quick. (It’s way paranoid, but I have the feeling the Publishing Perspectives people will see this—hello Ed! hi Hannah! hey there Erin!—and wonder why the fuck I’m past my deadline for the pieces ...
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Out of Denmark
Where: The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815, www.writer.org. 301.654.8664. The Writer’s Center presents Danish writers Pia Tafdrup, Naja Marie Aidt, and Simon Fruelund in cooperation with the Danish Arts Council’s Committee for Literature and George Mason University’s Fall For the Book ...
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Robert Walser and His “Microscripts”
Where: Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library, Թ Susan Bernofsky (German translator of Walser, Yoko Tawada, and more) will talk with Barbara Epler (publisher of New Directions) about the legendary Swiss author Robert Walser and his recently deciphered “microscripts,” published in English translation ...
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The MFA Program in Literary Translation at Queens College
Putting together the introduction for Susan Bernofsky is kind of intense . . . She’s accomplished so much and has so many things going on, including her involvement with the MFA program in Literary Translation at Queens College—a unique translation program that some of you (potential students? others?) might be ...
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And While We're Talking about PEN . . .
As if my inbox wasn’t jacked enough—trips to NY, Frankfurt prep, etc., and etc.—PEN is pouring on the press releases . . . Last night they announced the winners of this year’s Literary Awards. You can find them all here, but below are a few notable ones: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in ...
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Tonight's RTWCS Event
For all of you within driving distances of Rochester, you really should come out tonight for our first Reading the World Conversation Series Event of the season. Barbara Epler (publisher of New Directions) will be talking with Susan Bernofsky (translator of a number of German authors) about Robert Walser’s Microscripts, ...
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