Quim Monzó on WWB
Quim Monzó, whose Gasoline we’re releasing shortly, has two stories in Words without Borders’s PEN World Voices issue, Mr. Beneset and ...
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Entropy and Complex Business Models
The always provocative Clay Shirky has a new post out today entitled The Collapse of Complex Business Models. Granted, his focus is on how the simplicity of the internet will undermine TV producers, but a lot of his major points could be applied to the book publishing industry as well. His main idea comes from Joseph ...
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Happy Birthday, Complete Review!
As noted in the Literary Saloon today is the 11-year-anniversary of the Complete Review. In internet years, I believe that translates into approximately a millennium. Having been at this for almost three years myself, I’m astounded by Michael Orthofer’s ability to keep writing such quality posts and reviews for ...
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Marian Schwartz on Faithfulness in Translation
Yesterday’s Boston Globe has a nice interview with Marian Schwartz, one of the great contemporary translators, whose translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 was recently released. (Here’s a link to K.E. Semmel’s review of 2017 that we ran last week.) Q. What is a good translation? A. I think a ...
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E-Books and Permissions
As we all know, on Saturday our understanding of the modern world was irreversibly altered when Butler upended MSU to represent the Horizon League (Horizon League?!?) in tonight’s National Championship Apple released the iPad. To mark this occasion, the Times ran an interesting op-ed from nonfiction author Marc Aronson ...
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Reading the World Podcast #3: Suzanne Jill Levine
A new month and a new Reading the World Podcast, this time with Suzanne Jill Levine, famed translator (of Three Trapped Tigers, of Heartbreak Tango, of dozens of other wonderful books) and author of the very influential The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction. We recorded this back at MLA in December (in ...
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Sofi Oksanen Wins the Nordic Prize
Congrats to Sofi Oksanen, author of Purge, for winning the 2010 Nordic Prize. From the press release: Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen has won this year’s Nordic Council Literature Prize for her novel Puhdistus (Purge). The prize is worth 47,000 euros. Oksanen’s third novel, Purge, tells the story of ...
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