The Year of Jakov Lind
Today marks the third anniversary of Jakov Lind’s death. It was the occasion of his death that first brought Lind to our attention—I’m pretty sure I first read about him on Ready, Steady, Book, where Mark posted a link to his obituary. I did a little investigating at the time, and I discovered that his books ...
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Indie Bookstore Pics (Part II)
Did I ever mention that I’m obsessed with Lost? I mean, this international lit thing is great, but right now, given the choice between writing a long post about Fernando del Paso’s News of the Empire or spending my lunch watching last night’s episode, I can safely say that you’ll be reading a long ...
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For Any Poets and Translators Not Busy on Valentines Day . . .
I should’ve posted this a few weeks back . . . You know, like more than 6 days before the due date . . . But nevertheless, if you have some spare time this weekend and are interested in spending a month at the Vermont Studio Center, you might want to apply for the Zoland Poetry Fellowship: Beginning in 2009, Zoland ...
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Indie Presses on Campuses
This PW article by Judith Rosen actually came out last, but I got so busy with life—and the BTBA longlist write-ups—that I never had a chance to post about it . . . Entitled “Indie Presses Find a Home on Campuses,” the piece focuses on the handful of presses located on university campuses, what the ...
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Chad on Chicago Public Radio
Chad was on Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview yesterday afternoon. His shout outs included: Per Petterson, JMG Le Clézio, Herta Müller, and Stieg Larsson. Americans don’t get the chance to read many books written by authors who aren’t from this country. That’s because just about three percent of all the ...
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The Changeling
Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994, has always been a novelist concerned with big, important ideas and big, important problems, and yet his works are always written on a much smaller scale, focusing on that one individual character and how he is affected by the world around him. One may never read a ...
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RTW Podcast on iTunes
When we were launching the Reading the World podcast the other day, iTunes was all jacked and couldn’t accept our feed, etc., etc. (It just works! Sometimes. I suspect Apple IT employees were too busy watching TV on their souped-up iPads to bother with something so low-tech like iTunes.) Anyway, it’s up there now, ...
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