Reading the World 2008: Knowledge of Hell by Antonio Lobo Antunes
This is the eighth 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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Quarterly Conversation on Macedonio Fernandez
As has been mentioned on many other blogs, the new issue of the Quarterly Conversation is now available online. Yet another great issue, especially the article by Dan Green on the reissuing of Donald Barthelme’s books and the reviews of Bolano’s Nazi Literature in the Americas and Antunes’s Knowledge of ...
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WWB/RTW Book Club: The Assistant by Robert Walser
The newly redesigned Words Without Borders/Reading the World book clubs are now underway, and this month the book under discussion is Robert Walser’s The Assistant, which came out last year from New Directions and is translated by Susan Bernofsky. In contrast to the old version of the book clubs—which was ...
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Roberto Bolano's "Caracas Speech"
The second issue of the very impressive web magazine Triple Canopy recently went live and features the first English translation of Roberto Bolano’s Caracas Speech, which he gave a few years before his death upon receiving the Rómulo Gallegos prize for The Savage Detectives. It’s an interesting speech ...
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BookExpo America: Business of Bookselling
One of the big events at BEA was the announcement of the new IndieBound program of the American Booksellers Associaton. This will take the place of BookSense, a special marketing program that started ten years ago as a way of helping brand independent bookstores across the country. As mentioned in the Publishers Weekly ...
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Special Sale on MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Members of MLA might be interested in knowing that for the rest of June all books in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series are 25% off. Interesting series of books and a pretty good discount . . . ...
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BookExpo America: Party People
Everyone loves themselves a little BEA party. Outside of New York—and really, maybe even in NY—there’s rarely a chance for so many diverse book people from across the country to get together to mingle and drink and exchange business cards and all that stuff. Hanging out with so many intelligent, well-read ...
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