Here We Go . . .
I really don’t want to spread a sense of “doom and gloom” about the publishing industry, but wow, this bit of info about Borders from GalleyCat is not very encouraging: GalleyCat has received a copy of a “special alert” sent from a major book distributor specializing in independent ...
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2666: The NY Times Review
On the same day as the 2666 Launch Party (which, thanks to the d-bags curators of myopenbar.com was crowded with non-literary folk [seriously, we should all prank them by submitting hundreds of fake events featuring free booze], although Zadie Smith, Natasha Wimmer, Michael Miller, Craig Teicher, Mark Binelli, and many more ...
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2666: The Launch Party
I’m off to New York to make the rounds the next two days, and to log in a couple hours of tough “work” at Friday night’s 2666 launch party that’s taking place at Plan B (10th and B) from 8 to 10. I hear there will be some finished copies on sale, and a lot of people involved with the book (like ...
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The Fantastic Opening to Pinocchio
NYRB’s monthly Letter from the Editor is by far my favorite publisher newsletter. Edwin Frank is one of the most well-read, articulate editors in the country, and with such great material to write about, his pieces are always incredibly interesting. (You can sign up to receive these here and you can sign up to ...
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Well there you go
It took 8 years and 3 elections, but American voters finally got it right for the first time this century by electing Obama. This has been an incredible 24 hours—one of the most monumental days in American history. I’ll leave it to others to wax rhapsodic, I just want to say that watching Obama win last night was ...
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Slight Update to Translation Database
Thanks to the help of several of you, I made a few corrections to the 2008 Translation Database and now have a total of 328 titles. (I updated the numbers and file on the earlier post as well, in case you’re ...
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Galley Giveaway
We haven’t done this before, but we have a couple extra copies of the galley for Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis and rather than let them rot, we thought we’d pass them along to you. Considered to be one of the turning points in contemporary Lithuanian literature, Vilnius Poker is an ambitious book ...
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