First Annual Literature in Translation Forum at Vermont Studio Center
Another to add to the long list of events I wish I could attend . . . This Friday, the Vermont Studio Center is hosting the First Annual Literature in Translation Forum featuring Polish poet Adam Zagajewski and his translator Clare Cavanaugh. Polish poet Adam Zagajewski (who will be at VSC for the week as a Visiting ...
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Brooklyn Book Festival: Reading the World
The Brooklyn Book Festival took place this past Saturday, and as always, I wish I could’ve been there. I was able to attend a few years back, and was really impressed by how many people were out browsing the stands, attending panels and readings, and generally getting excited about books. And from what I’ve heard ...
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The Rescue of Hans Fallada
Where: Goethe Institue, 150 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601 Dennis Johnson, publisher of Melville House Press, and Julia Keller, Pulitzer Prize winner and Culture Critic for the Chicago Tribune, will discuss the career of Hans Fallada. Having fallen into literary obscurity, Fallada’s works, including Every ...
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Hot Frankfurt Titles
As previously mentioned, this Frankfurt, I’m going to be doing a lot of writing for the Publishing Perspectives Show Daily. This is actually starting now (which is one of several reasons the posts are going to be light on Three Percent this week and next), and one of the features I’m contributing to is the ...
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Prix Goncourt 2010
The longlist for this year’s Goncourt Prize was announced last week, and includes some familiar names—Amelie Nothomb, Michel Houellebecq—and some new, up-and-coming writers, such as Mathias Enard. Here’s the complete list for all you Francophiles who may have missed this1: Olivier Adam, Le ...
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Obituary: Rodolfo Fogwill
Although it hasn’t been covered in the U.S. papers (at least to the best of my knowledge), Argentine author Rodolfo Fogwill passed away at the end of last month. He published a ton of stuff in Argentina—around 20 books—but only one—Malvinas Requiem—has been published in English translation. ...
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The Year 3000: A Dream
Have you ever seen renderings or book covers from the 1800s in which the artist attempts to envision and portray a future world? They always seem quaint compared to the contemporary world as it has been realized—proof that we are so limited in imagining the unknown that it will always take on shades of what we have in ...
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