Volpi on WHAM
As we may have mentioned, Jorge Volpi is in town tonight for a reading with the translator of his Season of Ash, Alfred Mac Adam. And the most literary morning news show in these United States, 13WHAM News This Morning, spent a few minutes with Jorge and Chad, to discuss Season of Ash and Open Letter. Click here to watch ...
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RTWCS: Jorge Volpi and Alfred Mac Adam
If you happen to be here in Rochester, you should definitely come to U of R’s Plutzik Library at 6:30 for tonight’s Reading the World Conversation Series event with Jorge Volpi and Alfred Mac Adam. Jorge is one of the founding members of the “Crack” group—a collection of young Mexican ...
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Czech Literature Portal
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. I highly recommend visiting the official blog for interesting posts from Richard Nash, Alex Hippisley-Cox, and Arun Wolf After a while, all of the various “book market” presentations from the various countries start to sound the same . . . I know that’s a ...
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Blaft! Or the Sound of a 20kg Weight Crushing a Pomegranate
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. I highly recommend visiting the official blog for interesting posts from Richard Nash, Alex Hippisley-Cox, and Arun Wolf While I’m crushing on India, I thought I’d take a post to introduce Blaft, a very young, very hip, very successful Indian press ...
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Publishing Perspectives at the Frankfurt Book Fair
As you can probably deduce, I’m a bit jetlagged and exhausted from last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which is why I’m rerunning all of posts I wrote last week for the official Frankfurt Book Fair blog. (Besides, the FBF blog isn’t the easiest page in the world to find, so you may well have missed ...
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GlobalLocal: New Directions in Publishing
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. I highly recommend visiting the official blog for interesting posts from Richard Nash, Alex Hippisley-Cox, and Arun Wolf Back in February, a publishers’ roundtable took place in New Delhi to talk about opportunities of new markets, new models, new ...
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Argentina: Micropresses and Great Authors
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. I highly recommend visiting the official blog for interesting posts from Richard Nash, Alex Hippisley-Cox, and Arun Wolf Just for the tango alone, Argentina would rank as one of my favorite countries in the world. And when you throw in their literary ...
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