Tahar Ben Jelloun
I’m hoping to get to Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Leaving Tangier in the near future, but in the meantime, Moroccan Board has a nice review of the novel, and an interesting interview. Q. You write in French but your books have been translated into many languages. What do you see as the challenges of publishing your ...
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Didn't We Read This Story Just a Few Months Ago?
Yesterday it was announced that Moody’s has downgraded Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s rating, which sounds sort of familiar . . . probably because they did the same thing last December. This isn’t good news for the Education Media & Publishing Group—which is incorporated in the Cayman Islands and ...
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Robert Hass: The Poet as Translator
Where: 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA Join the Center for the Art of Translation for this special event in honor of National Poetry Month as former Poet Laureate Robert Hass reads and discusses his world-renowned translations. A long-time translator of Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, Hass has also translated the haiku of ...
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Free the Word!
The British equivalent to the PEN World Voices Festival, the Free the Word! festival kicks off on Thursday night with a discussion on the main stage of Shakespeare’s Globe featuring Nadine Gordimer, Tariq Ali, Samir El-youssef and Tahmima Anam. Put on by International PEN, the festival runs through Sunday and ...
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More eARC Info
Last week, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, Jenn Northington, Stephanie Anderson, and other independent booksellers started a conversation about the benefits of eARCs—electronic versions of the Advance Reading Copies all publishers send out to reviewers, booksellers, bloggers, etc. My complete post about this can be found ...
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Catherine Bohne is an Indie Heartthrob
Over at Bookslut, this week’s “Indie Heartthrob Interview” is with Catherine Bohne, a great drinker of wine (from personal experience), a wonderful person for late night conversations (ditto), and owner of the Community Bookstore in Park Slope (which has a great display of NYRB, Archipelago, and New ...
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Isabel Allende and Can Xue at the 92nd Street Y
Where: 92nd St Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY Readings by Isabel Allende and Can Xue will be followed by a conversation between the writers moderated by Marie Arana, writer-at-large at The Washington Post and author of the novel Lima Nights. Tickets at ...
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