Reading and conversation with Valerio Massimo Manfredi and Dino de Laurentils
The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA Free, open to the public Internationally bestselling author Valerio Massimo Manfredi will present his latest novel, āThe Ides of March,ā set during the tempestuous final days of Julius Caesarās Rome, and also discuss the process of ...
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Publisher Branding
The always interesting Publishing Perspectives has a great double-sided post today about publisher branding, with Erin Cox advocating for publishers to spend more time & money on this, and Sarah Russo arguing about why publishers shouldn’t “brand the brand.” It’s not hard to figure out where I ...
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2017
Itās hard not to think of twentieth-century Russian history as you crack open 2017, Olga Slavnikova’s Russian Booker Prize winning novel. The year 2017 will mark, of course, the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which culminated in the collapse of the Czarist autocracy and gave rise to the Soviet Union. ...
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Museum Giveaway on Facebook
As a way of rewarding out Open Letter Facebook Fans (if you’re not one, click this link to fan us), we’re giving away 10 copies of Macedonio Fernandez’s The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) to randomly selected fans who either “like” or “comment” on the post about ...
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Reading and conversation with Valerio Massimo Manfredi and panel
Where: Auditorium of the Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC Free, open to the public Internationally bestselling author Valerio Massimo Manfredi will present his latest novel, āThe Ides of March,ā set during the tempestuous final days of Julius Caesarās Rome, along with a panel of experts ...
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RTWCS: Helen Anderson and Konstantin Gurevich on Ilf & Petrov's "The Golden Calf"
Last Monday we kicked off the spring season of the Reading the World Conversation Series with an event featuring the husband and wife translating team of Konstantin Gurevich and Helen Anderson. They talked with Open Letter editor E.J. Van Lanen about the process of translating Ilf & Petrov’s The Golden Calf, which ...
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Globish
Robert McCrum—one of my favorite UK book critics, due in part to his interest in all things international—has a really interesting looking book coming out this May. Entitled Globish, it will be available in the UK from Penguin, and from W.W. Norton in the U.S. (although god help me to find this on the Norton ...
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