Words Without Borders Book Club: The Assistant by Robert Walser
A few weeks back, I mentioned the Reading the World/Words Without Borders Book Club featuring Robert Walser’s The Assistant. At the time the discussion was just getting underway, and all that was available online was Sam Jones’s excellent introduction and Susan Bernofsky’s translator’s afterword to the ...
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Reading the World 2008: Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
This is the ninth 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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Denis Scheck's List
Following up on yesterday’s post about the Helen and Kurt Wolff Symposium I thought I’d pass along the list of works (and publishers) that Denis Scheck recommended in his presentation on contemporary German literature. Denis Scheck is one of Germany’s most respected critics, and has both a radio and a TV ...
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Dublin IMPAC Award
“The world’s richest literary award” was given out yesterday to the Lebanese-Canadian writer Rawi Hage for De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage. From The Guardian: De Niro’s Game is set during the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s, its title alluding to the Russian roulette which features in the ...
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Helen and Kurt Wolff Symposium 2008: The Award and the Grants
So, after thirteen hours of being in transit (thank you, JFK and O’Hare!), I finally made it to Chicago in time to catch the reception part of the Reading and Reception in honor of the thirteenth Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize awarded to the best translation from German into English published in the past year. This year ...
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Review of To Be Translated or Not To Be
This is a bit self-promotional, but I’m proud to announce that my review of To Be Translated or Not To Be is available in the new issue of Publishing Research Quarterly. Having not published a print review in a while (I can barely find the time to sleep), I’m pretty ...
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Three Bits Related to E-Commerce
I could link to a dozen great posts from Ron Hogan of GalleyCat about BEA, but there are two in particular that really jumped out at me, in part because we’ve been talking so much about eBooks and Kindles and whatnot . . . The first is about Book Publishing’s 2.0 Business Model panel that took place last week ...
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