Jules Chametzky Prize
In our fifty-first year of publication, the editors of the Massachusetts Review plan to dramatically increase the amount of fiction, poetry, and socially-engaged nonfiction they publish in translation. Today, we see a great need for literary journals to internationalize—to open their ears and their pages to voices from ...
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That Nordic Noir
Sigh. This is good, right? Publishers and booksellers are in a rush to find more Nordic noir to follow Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, known for the indelible characters of Ms. Salander and the investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist. The books have become a publishing phenomenon, selling 6 million copies in the ...
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European Book Club: Night Work, by Thomas Glavinic
Where: The Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 E 52nd Street (between Fifth and Madison avenues), New York, NY To register for this session, send us an email at austria.nyc@europeanbookclub.org The Book: Night Work, by Thomas Glavinic The routine of daily life is such that one goes to sleep with the security that tomorrow ...
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Technology Snafu
Sorry to everyone who reads Three Percent through an RSS reader. The °µÍø³Ô¹Ï’s central server went down yesterday, and we had to re-create the last few days of posts. So you probably got a lot of duplicates in your feed reader this morning. Fingers crossed, everything should be back to ...
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This *&^%ing Sucks
Sorry for the vulgarities, but I just found out from both Suzy Staubach at the University of Connecticut Bookstore and from Publishers Weekly that the Brown University Bookstore is laying off scads of employees, including Peter Sevenair, the senior buyer who has been there for 31 years and is one of the most respected ...
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The Year in Translations (So Far): "The Literary Conference" by Cesar Aira
Last week I was on the Wisconsin Public Radio show Here On Earth to make some international literature summer reading recommendations. We weren’t able to cover the full list of books I came up with, so I thought I’d post about them one-by-one over the next couple weeks with additional info, why these titles sound ...
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Sangam House Applications for 2010-2011
Another post, another approaching deadline . . . Modeled in part after the amazing Ledig House program in Omi, NY, Sangam House is a relatively new residency program in India based around the belief that assembling writers from various cultural backgrounds broadens the scope of each individual’s work. Exposure to ...
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