2008 Frankfurt Fellows
Congratulations to everyone selected to be a Frankfurt Fellow this year—including our own E.J. Van Lanen. The Frankfurt Fellowship Program is a special opportunity for young publishing people from around the world to spend two weeks in Germany networking and learning about the German (and international) book market. The ...
>
Reading the World on The World
Last week, Bill Marx—the mastermind behind the World Books section of PRI’s The World website—was kind enough to interview me about Reading the World for his World Books Podcast. It’s always fun to talk with Bill—he knows more about international literature than almost everyone I know—and ...
>
Two Notes on the Future of Books
The first is from The Guardian: Blackwell’s is to become the first high-street bookseller in the UK to offer print-on-demand books while customers wait. The innovation will be delivered by an “Espresso Book Machine” (EBM), which can print and bind any one of a million titles. Set to be piloted ...
>
Future of Bookselling–UK Version
Now that I’m going to be in the office until late-July, I’ll finally have a chance to start interviewing booksellers across the country about the future of bookstores and bookselling. Coincidentally, I came across this article yesterday from The Bookseller (essentially the UK’s version of Publishers ...
>
The "New Classics"?
I unabashedly love Entertainment Weekly. (Or at least did—once my TV broke, I canceled my subscription.) That said, the recent list of the 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 strikes me as unbelievably provincial, and well, just plain bad. There are a handful of great books here—out of the top 25, The Wind-Up ...
>
I Think This Is a Translation Problem
From CNN: Local dishes like “Husband and wife’s lung slice” or “Chicken without sexual life” conjure lots of furrowed eyebrows on famished foreigners. So, with the Olympics a few short weeks away, China is giving its cuisine a linguistic makeover. It is proposing that ...
>
Another Reason Ubuweb is So Cool
I really don’t check up on Ubuweb as often as I should . . . It’s only thanks to a link via Gary Westmoreland that I was able to find this fascinating documentary on Jorge Luis Borges. Here’s part of Orlando Archibeque’s review of the documentary: This documentary’s major strength (others ...
>