We Agree
From Literary License’s 12 Days of Books: An Open Letter subscription is the perfect gift. It’s cheap (just $65 for half a year and $120 for the full year), and the books are intelligently chosen and beautifully designed. Your giftee will thank you throughout the year as the books get delivered month after month, ...
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Nordic Prize Nominations
I mentioned this yesterday in passing, but the nominations for this year’s Nordic Literature Prize have recently been announced. And yes, despite the intro paragraph reference to 2005, these are all books published in Nordic countries during 2008. Aside from Petterson, there are only a couple authors on this list ...
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Knopf, Black Wednesday, and More Publishing Struggles
Seems like every day there’s more bad publishing news . . . Yesterday was declared Black Wednesday by Media Bistro as Random House restructured, essentially consolidating within themselves, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s publisher Becky Saletan abruptly resigned, HMH fired executive editor Ann Patty along with ...
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Best Book Covers of 2008
Over at the Book Design Review, Joseph Sullivan has a post about his favorite covers of 2008. Lots of interesting covers here, including one of my favorites—the cover of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, designed by David Pearson. There’s even a poll for readers to ...
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Things To Do Tonight in New York
I usually don’t post things like this, but there are two great events happening tonight that I wish I could be at. First off, Archipelago Books is having their “third biennial fundraising auction” tonight at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy at 972 Fifth Ave. from 6:30 to 8:30. Lots of great ...
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Holt Uncensored Returns
Pat Holt is back, this time in blog format. For those unfamiliar with Holt, she’s been in the business for her entire career, including stints at Houghton Mifflin, as a correspondent for PW, and as the book review editor for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her e-newsletter Holt Uncensored was a critical look at all ...
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Banipal #33
The Autumn/Winter issue of Banipal recently came out, and sounds pretty interesting. (I wish some of the pieces were available online, but whatever.) The issue opens with a 70-page feature on Mahmoud Darwish (some of the articles are available onlie and also continues the special series on “Contemporary Syrian ...
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