Michael Orthofer's Nobel Prize Speculation
Not many people are as dialed into the Nobel Prize for Literature speculation as Michael Orthofer of the Literary Saloon. And his post this morning about the possibility of Herta Müller being announced as the winner tomorrow is pretty intriguing. And before anyone says “Herta who?,” Michael already put together ...
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The Next Volume of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84
One of my interns mentioned this the other week, and now The Millions points to this article about ads for next summer’s release of the third volume in Murakami’s already mammoth 1Q84: Murakami is currently working on the story, aiming for a release next summer, sources said. Sales of the first and second ...
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More Walser
Over at the New Directions blog there’s a fascinating interview with translator Susan Bernofsky (one of my favorite translators) on Robert Walser (one of my favorite authors). Number of interesting comments on the process and art of translation, but this bit about Walser’s Microscripts was what caught my ...
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Five Dials, Number 8: The Paris Issue
Published by Hamish Hamilton in pdf format and distributed free of charge through their website, Five Dials is a pretty amazing publication that doesn’t seem to get nearly as much attention as it deserves. I mean, in just this 45-page issue there are pieces by Ali Smith, Geoff Dyer, Susan Sontag (on Camus), John Updike, ...
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Poem Strip Launch Party
Where: Idlewild Books, 12 W. 19th St., New York, NY Idlewild Books, launch party for the first graphic novel published by New York Review Books, Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati, featuring translator Marina ...
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Charlotte Mandell
Where: °µÍø³Ô¹Ï, Sloan Auditorium, Goergen Hall, Rochester, NY Charlotte Mandell, translator of Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones and Mathias Énard’s Zone, forthcoming from Open Letter, in discussion with Open Letter’s Chad Post and E.J. Van Lanen. Charlotte Mandell has translated ...
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Today: Reading the World w/ Charlotte Mandell
To all those in the Rochester area, don’t forget that—today at 5:00 p.m. at the University of Rochester—celebrated French translator Charlotte Mandell (Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, et al.) will be reading from her new translation of Zone by Mathias Énard (a 517-page, one-sentence novel, forthcoming from Open ...
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