Open Letter Spring 09 Catalog: Landscape in Concrete
Over the next week or so, I’ll be unveiling all six of Open Letter’s spring 2009 titles. Our finished catalog will be back from the printer in the not-too-distant future, and on our website before that, but I thought it would be fun to give a bit of special attention to each of the titles. First up is a reprint ...
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Latest Review: The Tsar's Dwarf
Larissa Kyzer’s write-up of Danish author Peter Fogtdal’s The Tsar’s Dwarf is the latest addition to our review section. It’s fitting that Larissa would be the one to review this—in addition to reviewing for The L Magazine and working towards her Master’s in Library Science, she’s ...
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The Tsar's Dwarf
During a recent reading at the Scandinavia House in New York City, Danish author Peter Fogtdal explained some of the circumstances that led to the creation of his twelfth novel (and first to be translated into English), The Tsar’s Dwarf. Having set out to write an account of the ill-fated meeting between Denmark’s ...
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Publishing Models, Translations, and the Financial Collapse (Part 3)
This is the third part of a presentation I gave to the German Book Office directors last week. Earlier sections of the speech can be found here. And we’ll probably be posting bits and pieces of this for the next week or so. Switching over to bookstores, it’s worth pointing out that, unlike other parts of the world, ...
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A One-Stop Book Site
A relatively new site, Book Trib is a pretty cool meta-blog that re-posts book reviews, book articles, author interviews, etc., from a wide range of publications and blogs, from such diverse sources as the New Yorker, A Progressive on the Prairie, Literary Saloon, and many, many more. I already subscribe to the RSS feeds ...
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If the Number of Books Read Correlated with General Happiness . . .
A recent study by sociologists at the University of Maryland provides yet another reason why we should be giving books as presents this holiday season: unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as happy tend to read more books. According to the study’s findings, unhappy people watch an ...
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Ellen Elias-Bursac on PRI's The World Books Podcast
In his latest World Books podcast, Bill Marx — who runs PRI’s The World’s very impressive World Books website — talks with translator Ellen Elias-Bursac, the translator of Dubravka Ugresic’s Nobody’s Home and several books by David Albahari, including the brillian Gotz and Meyer for which ...
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