Best Translated Book Award Ceremony
Tomorrow is the big day: We’ll be announcing the winners of the 2010 Best Translated Book Award! Click the image below to download a PDF with all the details, but in brief: 7:00pm at Idlewild Books in NYC—oh, and drinks will be provided. Hope to see you ...
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Tonight's BTBA Event!
(A glamorous shelf in my glamorous office filled with BTBA titles.) Just a reminder that after five weeks of build-up, we’ll be announcing the fiction and poetry finalists for this year’s Best Translated Book Awards tonight at 7pm tonight at Idlewild Books (12 W. 19th St.). Cressida Leyshon will be ...
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BTBA Finalists Event at Idlewild Books
We still have a few (like seven) books from the fiction longlist left to profile, but to be honest, my attention is turning to next week’s announcement of the fiction and poetry finalists . . . As we did last year, we’ll be announcing 10 books from each category—truly the best of the best of the literature ...
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Another Reason to Buy BTBA Books from Idlewild
On Tuesday when we announced the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist, we included links from each of the books to the Idlewild online catalog in hopes of directing some sales to our Indie Bookstore of the Month. As an added incentive, Idlewild has decided to offer 20% off all BTBA books. Here’s a post from ...
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Idlewild Write-up
What kind of dreamer opens a bookstore in a recession, gives it a nostalgic name that means nothing to most people under 40, and stocks it with travel guides and obscure foreign novels? Meet David Del Vecchio, owner of Idlewild Books, who says business is thriving despite the odds against independent bookstores, the ...
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2009 Best Translated Book Award Winner in Conversation
This event is not to be missed . . . On Thursday, April 9th at 7pm, Attila Bartis—author of Tranquility, which won this year’s Best Translated Book Award—will be appearing at Idlewild Books (12 West 19th St., NY) with author and translator Brian Evenson. You can find our overview of Tranquility by ...
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An interview with Idlewild Books' David Del Vecchio
Bookslut has an interview with David Del Vecchio, the owner of Idlewild Books: At Idlewild, “International Literature” is not hidden away, but is featured and celebrated. To uncover a particular niche that is missing in the independent bookselling business is rare and exciting. To successfully open a ...
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