BTBA 2014 Fiction Longlist: It's Here!
The wait is over. Listed below are the twenty-five titles on this year’s Best Translated Book Award Fiction Longlist. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting each and every one of these as part of the annual “Why This Book Should Win the BTBA” series. It’s a fun way of learning about ...
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Four Titles from the Big Stacks
Sarah Gerard is a writer who used to work at McNally Jackson Books, but recently took a job at BOMB Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Bookforum, the Paris Review Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Slice Magazine, and other publications. Her new book, “Things I Told My ...
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How to Read Elfriede Jelinek
To follow-up on last week’s post, the exchange between Gitta Honegger and Tim Parks about his article on Jelinek is now available at the NYRB ...
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Jelinek's Magnum Opus from Yale?
Literary Saloon has some info about the new issue of the New York Review of Books (not available online yet), including a bit about an exchange between Gitta Honegger and Tim Parks on his piece How to Read Elfriede Jelinek. In arguing her point, Honegger references Die Kinder der Toten (The Children of the Dead), which was ...
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Live Online, Jelinek's New Novel
Following on E.J.‘s call to make the texts of books available for free online, comes this announcement today from Serpent’s Tail about Nobel Prize winning author Elfriede Jelinek publishing her latest novel Envy on her website. According to the notice, “Chapters appear on Jelinek’s website as she ...
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Jelinek's Greed
Critical Mass has a review of Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed as part of their “What to Read This Summer” series (which, BTW, is totally backing up my belief that summer reading shouldn’t be limited to craptastic books like The Manny). To me, Jelinek is one of the most controversy-causing Nobel recipients ...
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