Dubravka in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In advance of Dubravka’s reading on Friday at Novella Bookstore, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran this interview. Q: Are Americans reading enough foreign literature in translation? A: I inspired Open Letter Books (the American publisher of Nobody’s Home) to print a new translation of an old Russian ...
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New York Lit Crawl and the CLMP Event
Tomorrow evening, the first ever New York City Lit Crawl will take place. Essentially a bar crawl + literature, the Lit Crawl will feature five events taking place in the Lower East Side at 6 pm, followed by another six events in the East Village at 7:15, and then six more in Williamsburg at 8:30, with a final after-party at ...
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The State of Publisher-Reader Relations
Yesterday, E.J. and I were talking about the presentation on the “state of publishing in the U.S.” that he has to give as a Frankfurt Fellow. I thought it would be funny—and totally unexpected—if instead of giving the usual doom and gloom speech1, he provided a vision of an ideal book culture, one ...
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Another Entertaining List
From The Times is this list of 10 books not to read: 9: Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien The best I can say about this book is that it was a very useful tool at school for helping to choose your friends. Carrying a copy of Tolkien’s monstrous tome was the equivalent of a leper’s bell: ‘Unclean! ...
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Villains!
This list of the 50 Greatest Villains in Literature is pretty entertaining. Here are a few of the villains who made it: 38 Gil-Martin from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg. Demon? Doppelganger? Symptom of dementia? Whatever the identity of the tempter Gil-Martin in James Hogg’s ...
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He Kind of Has a Point
From The Guardian blog post by Michael Caine about the recent (or not so) surge in reprinting “lost classics”: Take a closer look at this recent publishing wheeze, and it soon reduces to digging out the obscurer works of not-so-obscure writers. If you listen carefully you’ll notice something that sounds ...
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New Hermano Cerdo
Issue #21 of Hermano Cerdo is now available, and looks to have some interesting pieces.
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