This Is Cool
. . . and most probably illegal. (Shhhh!) But the online magazine Admit Two has been serializing Charles Malamuth’s translation of Ilf & Petrov’s famous Little Golden America—a travelogue of the two writers’ trip through America that’s been out of print for eons. (Although Ilf & ...
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Wait for It . . .
Lithuanian + Zombies =
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All Over the National Book Foundation Site Today
Following up on the post about Gravity’s Rainbow, the National Book Foundation just posted a short appreciation I wrote of William Gaddis’s J R. J R is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world. Similar to Gravity’s Rainbow (which I wrote about earlier), this is another encyclopedic novel with ...
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Jane Friedman and Larry Kirshbaum on Obsessed
Until yesterday I’d never heard of Obsessed with Samantha Ettus and doubt I’ll be watching this much in the future (“the typical guest on Obsessed is a charismatic fireball of talent and passion . . . [and] has likely been on Oprah, The Today Show and countless other media outlets sharing industry ...
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Lance Fensterman on Cons vs. Trade Shows
Today’s Publishing Perspectives (which everyone in the universe should subscribe to), has a great piece by Lance Fensterman, the man behind BookExpo America, the New York Comic Con, the New York Anime Fest, and the soon-to-be-launched Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. The interaction (or lack thereof) between ...
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"A screaming comes across the sky."
This summer the National Book Foundation has been posting reader reactions to each of the 77 fiction winners from its 60-year history. Along with Casey Hicks (whose overview is great—Byron the Bulb!), I wrote a short bit about Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, which went online today. (Perfect timing with ...
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“I hope to be remembered as a writer who speaks the truthâ€
Below is a guest post from Wen Huang, whose translation of Liao Yiwu’s The Corpse Walker is now available in paperback, and whose translation of Xianhui Yan’s Woman from Shanghai releases on Thomas Pynchon day today. We’re planning on reviewing this in the next week or so—sounds ...
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