Reading the World 2008: Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
This is the eleventh 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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Book Sales Booming in Spain
Not sure how I missed this when it first came out, but this piece in the Independent is fascinating: House sales have plunged, automobiles have tanked, and credit is throttled, but Spain is experiencing an unprecedented boom in books. Once the nation that read fewer books than any other in Europe, Spaniards have become ...
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New Issue of Boldtype
The July issue of Boldtype is now available online and the focus is “Summer Reads.” In addition to a nice review of Sasa Stanisic’s How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, there’s a great write-up by Scott Esposito of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s The Invention of Morel. What do you do when ...
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Waltic 2008, or, a Great Reason to Visit Sweden
This gathering taking place in Stockholm, sounds pretty great: WALTIC – the value of words, is the first literary world congress of its kind. For the first time ever, a thousand writers and translators from all over the world will gather in one common manifestation of the value of words and in support of human ...
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From the Comments Section
I doubt many people revisit our posts to read the comments—although I check them religiously, so please keep posting!—so I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight some of the really interesting and informative ones that have been submitted over the past week. First off, in relation to the post on Richard ...
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Reading the World 2008: New European Poets
This is the tenth 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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Latest Review: La Follia Improvvisa di Ignazio Rando
Our latest review is of Dario Franceschini’s La Follia Improvvisa di Ignazio Rando, which is available in Italian from Bompiani, but has yet to be translated into English. As reviewer Lucinda Byatt notes, Franceschini’s first novel, Nelle vene quell’acqua d’argento received several prizes, including the ...
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