Weekly Roundup — August 17

Highlights from this week:

• The St. Louis Cardinals swept the Milwaukee Brewers, and as of this morning, are only 2.5 games out of first. This has absolutely nothing to do with international literature;

• We took a look at the Espresso Book Machine (Frankenstein machine prints books!), gave a bit of love to DailyLit (not everyone’s a fan), pointed out some Google scanning issues, and hated on the LongPen (twice) and HarperCollins

• E.J. was officially made a Heartthrob

• For obvious reasons, India and Pakistan were in the news a lot this week, and we included several articles on the literature from both countries;

• The German Book Prize was announced;

• Our reviews for the week were of Merce Rodoreda’s A Broken Mirror, and Isaac Rosa’s Another Damn Novel about the Spanish Civil War!

• And speaking of exclamation points, a book definitely worth noting is Mark Binelli’s Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!.