Reading the World 2008: Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy
This is the sixteenth Reading the World 2008 title we’re covering. Write-ups of the other titles can be found here. And information about the Reading the World program—a special collaboration between publishers and independent booksellers to promote literature in translation throughout the month of June—is ...
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Magdalena Tulli's Flaw
Daniel Green’s post on Magdalena Tulli’s Flaw makes this book sound incredibly intriguing: Flaw relates what happens on this square over the course of a single day. And it is an eventful day. Most dramatically, a large group of “refugees” emerges from the streetcar and crowds into the square, to ...
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Congrats to Morgan Entrekin
As reported in Shelf Awareness, Morgan Entrekin of Grove/Atlantic is the 2008 recipient of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Legacy Award. NAIBA’s board of directors called Entrekin “the embodiment of true spirit of independent bookselling. In an age dominated by media hype, quick celebrity ...
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The Future of the Online Bookshelf?
If:Book calls attention to Zoomii, a new “virtual bookstore” with titles arranged on virtual shelves, sort of like a normal bookstore. (Well, a “normal” bookstore that faces out every single title.) It is sort of cool to look at and play with, and does start to replicate the browsing experience one ...
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Peter Nadas
A number of people are raving about Deborah Eisenberg’s essay on Peter Nadas from the current New York Review of Books, and for good reason. The main occasion for the article is the release of Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays, which came out last year from FSG, and is now available in paperback from Picador. (As ...
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The Best PEN World Voice Event Ever
In my opinion at least, was the “Tribute to Robert Walser,” the audiofile of which is now available online A number of audiofiles from this year’s festival—including the Town Hall Readings, the Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Levy discussion on Darfur, and the Celebration of New Voices from China now ...
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In Contrast to Argentina's Import Problems . .
Yesterday, I wrote a bit about the cost of imported books in Argentina and the impact this has on access. (In case you’re interested, Scott Esposito wrote an interesting piece a while back about the cost of books.) Oddly enough, it seems like Australia has a related, yet different sort of problem—publishers ...
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