Jaume Cabre's Winter Journey
To celebrate the release of Catalan author Jaume Cabre’s Winter Journey, Swan Isle Press — which was founded in 1999 and publishes a lot of literature from Latin America and Spain, and is definitely worth checking out — released this video below featuring a 10-minute interview with Cabre. Definitely worth ...
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Reading the World #6: Forrest Gander
Here’s the new episode of the Reading the World Podcast. This one is hosted by Erica Mena (poet, translator, regular RTW podcast host) and Annie Janusch (translator, University of Iowa translation student) and features conversation with Forrest Gander about approaches to translating poetry and his forthcoming ...
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New Center for the Art of Translation Website
The Center for the Art of Translation recently redesigned its website, which provides a perfect opportunity to reiterate just how awesome CAT is. Lots of amazing stuff on here, including a killer list of upcoming events, an interview with Susan Bernofsky about translating Robert Walser, and information about Two Lines. So ...
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Comedy in a Minor Key and The Death of the Adversary
Farrar, Straus and Giroux has just released translations of two remarkable short novels by the German writer Hans Keilson, who turns 101 in December. Comedy in a Minor Key (1947) is appearing in the U.S. for the first time, while The Death of the Adversary (1959) is a reprint of an English translation first published here in ...
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"When a book makes sweet sex to a computer, the resulting offspring is called a blog"
Since my first “Introduction to Literary Publishing” class of the semester starts in about an hour, I thought I’d share this video with some very basic information about what a book ...
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FILI Editors' Trip
Last week I had the opportunity to travel to Helsinki, Finland at the invitation of the Finnish Literature Exchange. FILI invited fourteen editors, from Tawain to the UK to the US, to attend a few lectures on the Finnish Publishing scene, meet with individual publishers and agents, and generally soak up the publishing ...
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New Issue of World Literature Today
The September/October issue of World Literature Today is apparently now available. (Stealing from Michael Orthofer’s playbook, I say apparently because I actually subscribed to WLT a couple years ago and received exactly one issue . . . which is pretty much what happened with my subscription to The Nation. What the ...
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