PEN World Voices Festival Schedule
Over at the PEN website they’ve announced the full schedule for this year’s World Voices festival. It’s hard to believe, but this year they’re celebrating the 5th anniversary of the festival. After the first one, I wondered if they’d ever be able to pull it off again—it’s an ...
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Yu Hua's Newsweek Profile and Chinese Censorship
This post by Bruce Humes highlighting all the bits cut out of the Chinese translation of a recent Newsweek profile of author Yu Hua (Brothers) is fascinating: Yu, a former dentist with the charm of a salesman and an unassuming nature that have earned him comparisons to a peasant, has avoided the censorship of Chinese ...
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Jeremy Davies on Roubaud's The Loop
Over at the always interesting Front Table, editor Jeremy Davies has a nice piece about the forthcoming release of Jacques Roubaud’s The Loop, (click to pre-order from Seminary Co-op) the second “branch” in his “Great Fire of London cycle.” At some point Iād become aware that The Great ...
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German Book Office Book Picks and Giveaways
As announced to members of the German Book Office Facebook Group yesterday, the GBO is giving away a few copies of their recent Book Club pick, Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek. Here’s the PW review: Starred Review. Extreme grief permeates Fitzek’s brilliant psychological thriller, a bestseller in his native ...
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Neuman wins Alfaguara Prize
Argentinaās Andres Neuman on Monday was awarded Spainās Alfaguara Novel Prize ā considered among the most prestigious of its kind in the Spanish language ā for āEl viajero del sigloā (The Traveler of the Century). Neuman, a novelist, poet and short story writer who was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires but ...
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Mighty Angel in European Book Club
As officially announced at Bacacay, (the official blog of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York) Jerzy Pilch’s The Mighty Angel has been selected as the September title for the European Book Club. It’s an honor to have one of our titles selected for this program, especially since this is the first time the ...
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Zoetrope: The Post-Post-Boom Issue
E.J. mentioned this earlier, but now that we actually have a physical issue in hand, I thought I’d add a bit of information. As noted in the earlier post, this issue of Zoetrope: All-Story is dedicated to contemporary Latin American writers. All of the writers included in this issue are under 40 (born ...
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