Joe Wikert's Bookstores vs. Online Series
Earlier this week Joe Wikert completed his six-part series of posts (this links to the final piece, which has links to the first five parts) about how brick-and-mortar bookstores could better compete with online retailers (aka Amazon.com). Taken as a whole, I’m not sure his suggestions would necessarily fix all the ...
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Dubravka Ugresic on the Internets
Over the past week or so, Dubravka’s book (Nobody’s Home) has been making its way around the internet, garnering some really nice praise along the way. First off, it received a great review (4 out of 5) by Gwen Dawson at the always excellent Literary License. And then yesterday, Douglas Rushkoff (whose ...
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Rupert by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Reading a translation when it first comes in is always a fascinating, exciting experience. Frequently we acquire books based on a sample translation, a reader’s report, and conversations/recommendations from trusted readers and translators. Although this system—for all its baroque qualities—works quite well, ...
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Dubravka and Breyten on Leonard Lopate Show
Here’s the half-hour discussion with Dubravka Ugresic and Breyten Breytenbach that we mentioned
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Very Special Offer
Tonight is the night of the Dubravka Ugresic/Breyten Breytenbach reading at the 92nd St. Y, and as it so happens, I have a few tickets available for this. (I’m here in Rochester, resting up for my next New York to Minneapolis to Frankfurt, Germany trip.) If you’re a die-hard Ugresic (or Breytenbach) fan, and ...
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Latest Review: Tranquility by Attila Bartis 

Our latest review is of Tranquility by Attila Bartis and was written by Jeff Waxman. (Who’s compiling a nice list of reviews for us.) This is a dumb joke, but when I read the first line of Jeff’s review — “In the world of Hungarian literature, of Kertész and Krúdy, of Konrád and Krasznahorkai, how ...
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Daniel Kehlmann Against the German Book Prize
Over at the Literary Saloon, — Litblogging’s Finest Source of International News — Michael Orthofer reports on Daniel Kehlmann’s article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung railing against the German Book Prize. I can’t read the article in the original (which can be found here), but ...
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