Help Open Letter By Buying the Books for My Spring Class
As you probably know already, Open Letter Books is a non-profit publishing house. Which means that a) I go out of my way to help the field of translation/publishing as a whole (see: Best Translated Book Award, this blog, the translation database, and a dozen other things that don’t benefit us financially, but which I ...
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LiT Forum: Translator Esther Allen with José Manuel Prieto
Reading with translator Esther Allen and author José Manuel Prieto. Where: Vermont Studio Center, 80 Pearl Street, Johnson, VT 05656 When: Friday, October 30th, from 8-9pm For more information on the event, go ...
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ALTA 2015: Translation and Traffic
The annual American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference is the largest gathering of literary translators all year. In a different city each fall, hundreds of literary translators, editors, students, professors, and others come together for three days of panels, workshops, roundtables, readings, and meetings ...
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Dubravka Ugresic Wins the Neustadt Prize!
Huge congratulations to Dubravka Ugresic for winning the “2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature!” From the press release: World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Friday evening that novelist and essayist ...
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Another Important Open Letter Book: "The Things We Don't Do" by Andrés Neuman
Back in September, when The Things We Don’t Do first came out, we were going to release the video below as a trailer. That didn’t end up happening, but seeing that we’re less than 100 copies away from selling out the first printing of the book, it seems like as good a time as any to share this fantastic ...
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Another Really "Important" Book We Publish: Guillermo Saccomanno's "Gesell Dome"
Last night I got a bunch of people excited on Twitter (my feed is a bit more . . . schizoid than the official Open Letter feed, although you should follow that one too!) about Guillermo Saccomanno’s Gesell Dome, so I thought I’d share a bit more about this book. We signed this on a while back, shortly after ...
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We May Not Be Good Enough for "Important" Books, but Whatever, We're in Harper's!
I really, really want to air my massive grievances with Actes Sud and the French Publishers Agency over how poorly—and, in my opinion, unprofessionally—they handled the sales of U.S. rights to Mathias Ènard’s latest novel. In fact, I just deleted a huge long post describing how I know it’s equally ...
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