Hey There, I'm an Author, You're a Reader . . . (Part V of the French Study Trip)
This isn’t the easiest of series to wrap up. In part because of today’s schedule (I have meetings/class from 10am until 1pm, so god only knows when this post will actually go live), and in part because there are no real conclusions that can be drawn. Well, except maybe one: Coming at it from a publishing ...
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By the way, we sometimes post here the highlights of goings-on at Open Letter, but if you really want to keep up-to-date on Open Letter news, events, reviews, releases, the occasional book giveaway, and etc., don’t forget that Open Letter has it’s own RSS news feed to which you may happily subscribe . . ...
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RTWCS: International Writers in Residence at Ledig House
Where: °µÍø³Ô¹Ï, Wilson Commons, Gowen Room, Rochester, NY Ledig House is one of the only international writer residences in the U.S. This event features readings and discussion from Tom Dreyer, South Africa, Pravda Miteva, Bulgaria, Kathrin Aehnlich, Germany, and Linda Gaboriau, Canada. Free and open to ...
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Best Review Ever
From Okla Elliott’s review of Season of Ash in Inside Higher Ed: Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash is the kind of novel that reminds me why I read novels in the first place, but it’s also the kind that makes me wonder why I bother to write. Before the end of this review, I am going to try to convince you that Volpi ...
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Open Letter Books Receives Grant from Amazon.com
We’re interrupting the longest posts known to bloggers to officially announce a grant that we received from Amazon.com to support The Wall in My Head. Here’s the official press release: Open Letter Books has been awarded a $20,000 grant from Amazon.com to support the publication and promotion of The Wall in My ...
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What's Your Consumer Surplus? (Part IV of the French Study Trip)
So for the past couple years I’ve been taking business classes at the University of Rochester’s Simon School. Slowly (and I mean really slowly) working my way towards a M.B.A. (And making interesting friends along the way. If you want a lesson in perspective, try explaining the publishing world to future ...
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The Wall in My Head
I was born in the final decade of communism’s flailing grasp on the Eastern Bloc, and so what I know of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism has long been relegated to what I learned from middle school textbooks, and teachers who had to explain to us why those maps we were so diligently studying were ...
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