Podcasts from the Wolff Symposium, Part II
Earlier this week I posted about the Wolff Symposium 2010 podcasts from BEZ. Anyway, the one recording that was missing is now available, so you can check out The Art of Literary Translation with Peter Constantine, Drenka Willen, Susan Bernofsky, Ross Benjamin, Krishna Winston, and Breon Mitchell. ...
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Because Cleveland Folks Have Enough Problems . . . More World Cup!
Over at Words Without Borders, Andy Tepper has a great post listing interesting books to read from all participating World Cup countries: There are some interesting books, even more so perhaps this year because the Cup is being held in Africa for the first time. But I thought it might also be fun to use the idea of the ...
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The World Cup & Archipelago Books
I meant to write about this last week, but I’m an idiot and totally forgot. Although there’s not a lot of time left to take advantage of this, Archipelago Books is having a World Cup Special: for $90 you get a set of nine Archipelago titles by writers from the host and quarterfinal-qualifying countries, or for $35 ...
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"The Canvas": The Next German Book I Want to See Translated
Thanks to Ed Park (who wrote the amazing Personal Days, which everyone who has ever worked should definitely read) for bringing this to my attention—a novel which you can start on either end and which seemingly ends with a confrontation between the two main characters that happens literally at the middle of the ...
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The Critical Flame on Mabanckou's "Broken Glass"
The new issue of The Critical Flame is now available online, complete with a piece by editor/founder Dan Pritchard on Internet Book Reviews (through the lens of an internet review of the Open Letters Monthly anthology of internet book reviews), and an interesting piece by Katherine Evans on Alain Mabanckou’s Broken ...
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European Book Club: Nostalgia, by Mircea Cărtărescu
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, 573-577 Third Avenue (at 38th Street), New York, NY To register for this session, send us an email at romania.nyc@europeanbookclub.org The Book: Nostalgia, by Mircea Cărtărescu Nostalgia “introduces to English a writer who has always had a place reserved for him in ...
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Reading at the Speed of Print
This is interesting: People can read traditional printed books a good bit faster than eBooks on tablet computers, a new study has found. The study tested peoples’ pace of reading on two popular e-reader tablets – Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle 2 – as well as a standard PC monitor and a ...
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