Observer Translation Project
The Observer Translation Project is a relatively new website featuring news, reviews, and samples from and about Romanian authors. From the About Us page: We highlight a “pilot” author each month. This is the place to learn about Romanian writers, find updates on Romanian writing abroad, read CV’s, take a look at ...
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Harvard "Select Seventy" and Other Open Letter Publicity
I just found out last week that the Harvard Book Store selected The Conqueror by Jan Kjaerstad as part of its Select Seventy program. As implied by the name, this program consists of seventy books selected by booksellers and buyers—all of which are sold at a 20% discount for the month. Seeing any of our books on a ...
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Anuvela Correction
I fixed the original post already, but in writing about Anuvela, I mistakenly said that this collective was made up of seven women—it’s actually six women and one man. What’s worse is that Robert Falco Miramontes was one of the translators who worked on the Ken Follett translation that I mentioned . . ...
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Tim Wilkinson Interview
Hungarian Literature Online has a really nice interview with Tim Wilkinson, who is probably best known as Imre Kertesz’s new translator. But for all publishers out there, Tim’s translated a lot more than Kertesz. In fact, he has a whole host of translations sitting in his desk waiting for a publisher . . . ...
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You Can Take the Man Out of Publishing, But . . .
He may have resigned from Soft Skull, but as evidenced in a recent post, at his personal blog—always a source of great erudition and entertainment—Richard Nash still has a lot to say about the business of publishing, the so-called “death of the book,” etc.: People, the book will live on with the ...
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The Buddenbrooks Book Club
Over at Conversational Reading, Scott Esposito is trying out an online book club experiment. Over the next month he will be reading Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks along with two friends—Sacha Arnold and John Lingan—and discussing the book online. Hopefully this will generate an interesting conversation and ...
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French Voices — Year Four
Information about the fourth year of French Voices was announced yesterday. As stated on the above website, the goal of French Voices is to ensure that contemporary French works (both fiction and non) are published in English translation. To that end, each year, between seven and twelve titles are selected to be part of ...
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