Peter Nadas & His New Book
One of the fall books that I’m interested in checking out is Peter Nadas’s Parallel Stories, an extremely long trilogy (like 1200 pages long) that’s coming out from FSG this October. This week, in FSG’s consistently interesting Works in Progress newsletter has an interview with Nadas about this new ...
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European Book Club Reads "Primeval and Other Times"
If I was on last year’s BTBA fiction panel, I would have lobbied hard for Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and Other Times, a fascinating book about a small Polish village, its inhabitants, and all that happens to them over the course of the twentieth century. It’s a wonderful book that’s built out of small, ...
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Celebration of The Hudson Review’s Spanish Issue
Where: Queen Sofía Spanish Insitute 684 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10065 Please join us for an evening of readings and discussion featuring: Antonio Muñoz Molina “A Double Education” Coming-of-age as a writer as Spain itself emerged in the post-Franco years Edith Grossman “The Solitudes” From the ...
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The Troubles of Advocating for Literary Publishing [Yes, Things Are That Bad]
This past Monday I participated in LitTAP’s 2011 Facing Pages Convening, a day-long event dedicated to helping nonprofit literary organizations to better “Tell Their Story” in fundraising documents and marketing materials. My main role in the conference was to serve as the Simon Cowell of the ...
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For an "Industry in Crisis" There Sure Are a Lot of Books
From today’s Publishers Weekly summary of Bowker’s latest report on publishing: Despite the belief in many quarters that the growth of e-books will mean the death of the printed book, the number of books produced by traditional publishers rose 5% in 2010, to a projected 316,480, according to preliminary ...
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With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows
With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows is an ambitious and uniquely constructed work of literary nonfiction. Published as a part of the Baltic Literature Series by Dalkey Archive Press, this moving and eloquent book tells the story of author Sandra Kalniete’s Latvian family, and the harrowing hardships they endured over the ...
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Latest Review: "With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows" by Sandra Kalniete
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Jessica LeTourneur on Sandra Kalniete’s With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows, translated from the Latvian by Margita Gailitis and available from Dalkey Archive Press. This book is part of Dalkey’s “Baltic Literature Series,” and is one of the ...
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