Another Interesting Video
This one is an interview with book designer Chip Kidd on cover art, the Kindle, etc. (via
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Georges Borchardt in Poets & Writers
Nice video interview with agent Georges Borchardt up at the Poets & Writers site. I love listening to Georges Borchardt, even when he doesn’t include Open Letter as a new small press that he recently had dealings with. (Like last year when we published Marguerite Duras’s The Sailor from Gibraltar) But ...
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And Let Us Now Praise Georges Perec
Yesterday’s afternoon mail brought with it two Georges Perec books that Godine just brought out: a new edition of Life A User’s Manual and Thoughts of Sorts, a collection of essays published posthumously in France in 1985. And which, according to the jacket copy, “completes the Godine list of ...
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Brazos Bookstore
Every month Three Percent features an independent bookstore. This month’s featured bookstore is Brazos
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Dubravka Ugresic's "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg"
This won’t be available in the States until next spring, but Dubravka Ugresic’s Baba Yaga Laid an Egg is already getting some great press in the UK, such as this piece in the London Review of Books by Marina Warner: Dubravka UgreÅ¡ić’s Baba Yaga Laid an Egg is the latest, most inventive and most ...
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Good Books, "Difficulty," and Plot
I think blogs were created for the very reason of attacking articles like Lev Grossman’s Good Novels Don’t Have to Be Hard, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. This article is so annoying and so preposterous that it’s actually dangerous. It opens with Grossman’s praising ...
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Upcoming on Three Percent
Now that school is back in session (speaking of which, if there are any U of R students reading this—or friends of U of R students—we still have a couple internship openings, so e-mail me if you’re interested), we’re really getting back into the swing of things with the site. I know it was a bit quiet ...
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