An Amendment I'm In Favor Of
In Minnesota tomorrow, voters will weigh in on adding an amendment to the state constitution that would create a significant amount of money for the arts: [. . .] this amendment is important. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help solidify some of the best things about this state. Its beneficiaries ...
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2008 Translations — Final Numbers?
It’s been a few months since I last posted an update to our ongoing “translation database” project. Over the past 10 months, I’ve been going through every catalog I can get my hands on, all reviews in Publishers Weekly, every new book announcement from Small Press Distribution, and e-mails from ...
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Grand Idea Surrounding Crappy Content
Joe Wikert writes about the recent push at Thomas Nelson to engage with book bloggers. I’m not sure how revolutionary it is to offer writers/bloggers a copy of a book if they will review/write about it (we call these review copies), but, you know, good job Thomas Nelson, this “free book” strategy got ...
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Oprah Backlash
I wondered when someone would speak out against Oprah’s endorsement of the Kindle. From the Vroman’s Bookstore Blog: Unless you’ve been living under a rock or, I don’t know, focusing on the election or something, you probably know that Oprah is just crazy about Amazon’s ebook reader the ...
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WSJ on Le Clezio
Richard Woodward has a really nice overview of Nobel Prize winner J.M.G. Le Clezio is today’s Wall Street Journal Noting that at least a dozen of his more than 35 novels and story collections have been translated into English over the past 44 years, however, I could not help but wonder: Is a blinkered American ...
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Latest Review: Of Kids & Parents
Our latest review is of Emil Hakl’s Of Kids & Parents, published by the admirable Twisted Spoon Press in
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Of Kids & Parents
It’s a banal thing to say, but Twisted Spoon Press is one of the most under-appreciated small publishers. For years—sixteen according to its website—TSP has been producing beautiful editions of books by Central and Eastern European authors. Some of the names on their list are ...
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