2009 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
The immense longlist for the 2009 IMPAC award was announced yesterday. As always with the IMPAC, the list is all over the place and almost too long (146 novels!) to really mean something. The process for awarding the IMPAC goes on for almost a year, with the shortlist being announced on April 2nd, and the winner on June ...
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Even O is Hip to It
A number of 2666 reviews are out now, including one in the L.A. Times and one by Adam Kirsch in Slate. And even in O Magazine, which compares the book to a video game (?!): Holding a reviewer’s copy of 2666 in public was like brandishing the newest Harry Potter at the playground three months before the on-sale ...
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2008 Miriam Bass Award Ceremony
This year’s Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing was given to Jill Schoolman of Archipelago Books, a good friend, fantastic publisher, and energetic advocate for international literature. She truly deserves this award and all the accolades that Marianne Bohr included in her introduction: This ...
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Amazon UK's Translation Store
This is a great idea: Amazon.co.uk has launched a new Literature in Translation store, highlighting hundreds of titles from 27 countries across the world. The site went live last week and is linked via the books homepage and the crime, fiction and poetry category pages The Bookseller Can’t say it’s the ...
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Update on Borders Post
In case you’re interested, a copy of the entire memo from Borders to IPG that I referenced earlier is available on Ed Champion’s blog. There are a few interesting paragraphs not included in the earlier GalleyCat post: We think that the best course for IPG’s client publishers is to accept the option of ...
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New Directions: Spring & Summer 2009 Catalog
Barbara Epler gave me a copy of the new New Directions catalog at the 2666 party on Friday, and it’s so amazing that it deserves its own post. There are a ton of translations coming out from ND next year—well, OK, nine—a good mix of classic authors (Walser, Borges, Bolano) and some new (like Guillermo ...
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November E-Newsletter
The latest Open Letter Newsletter is now available online. As an update: the Vilnius Poker giveaway is now closed. We received a lot of submissions and will be sending out e-mails to the three winners (and all other entries) this afternoon. Another book featured in the newsletter is Fonseca’s The Taker and Other ...
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