Open Letter's $4.99 Ebook Pricing
As we announced last week, for the rest of June, all nine of our ebooks will be available for $4.99/title—a pretty good bargain, especially since they’ll go back to the standard $9.99 on July 1st . . . You can find info about all our available ebooks by clicking here here. (In case anyone’s interested, ...
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The Nine-Eyed Agate: A Conversation with Jangbu
Where: Trace Foundation’s Latse Library, 132 Perry Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014 Join us as we celebrate the publication of the most recent work by one of Tibet’s most influential poets, Jangbu (Dorjicering Chenaktsang), and catch a sneak preview of his upcoming documentary Yartsa. The Nine-Eyed Agate: Poems ...
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Three Percent #6: Twitter, Twitter, Books, Twitter
We’re back again with this week’s podcast, in which we discuss whether ebook pricing can destroy the world, whether publishers with unlimited resources can save the world, and whether anyone in the world really wants their favorite authors to Tweet @ them. It’s a fun conversation, and when you listen to ...
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Tyrant Memory
Contemporary Latin American literature in translation abounds with words of posthumous support from Roberto Bolaño, a blurber par excellence for a generation of writers only now being ushered into the Anglo-American canon, in some cases two decades after first being published. The mild absurdity of this gold standard, ...
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Latest Review: "Tyrant Memory" by Horacio Castellanos Moya
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Julia Haav on Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Tyrant Memory, which is translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver, and will be available later this month from New Directions. It’s also this week’s Read This Next title. Julia is is a publicist for ...
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Interview with Horacio Castellanos Moya [Read This Next]
As part of this week’s Read This Next activities, we just posted an interview with Horacio Castellanos Moya about Tyrant Memory: Chad W. Post: How does Tyrant Memory compare to the other works of yours that have been translated into English? It seems to revolve around similar political themes. Horacio ...
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Ich spreche kein Deutsch. Going German and Liking It
If you’re looking to try out your German translation skills the German company no man’s land contacted us and is looking for submissions for its 2011 issue coming out in November. no man’s land is now accepting poetry and prose electronically and by mail. If interested contact Isabel Cole. Viel ...
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