BookExpo America: Other Round-Ups
To supplement the series of posts we’re writing, here are some other round-ups from people much smarter and funnier: I mentioned this earlier, but it’s definitely worthwhile checking out Karl Pohrt’s There Is No Gap if for no other reason than the picture of Karl kneeling in front of Britney ...
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This Doesn't Bode Well
From PW Daily: The anticipated cuts at Borders were announced this morning with the bookstore chain saying that it has eliminated a total of 274 positions. The majority of the cuts came in its Ann Arbor headquarters where 156 jobs were eliminated, with the company reporting that the cuts occurred in virtually all ...
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Believer Book Award
In addition to the neverending recap of BEA, today seems to be a day of award news . . . Specifically, Tom McCarthy won the fourth annual Believer Book Award for his novel Remainder. (One of my favorite books of the past few years.) “What’s the most intense, clear memory you have?” asks the narrator of Tom ...
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French Translation Awards
I mentioned this just before I left for BEA, but last Wednesday the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation hosted the Twenty-First Annual Translation Prize ceremony in New York. This Prize is for the best fiction and nonfiction translations from French into English over the past year and comes with a ...
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BookExpo America: Panels
I participated in two translation panels on Saturday at BEA—one on funding for translations and the other on marketing. The morning session on funding was organized and moderated by Caro Llewellyn from PEN America (and director of the PEN World Voices Festival) and included star translator Michael Henry Heim, Michael ...
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BookExpo America: The Books (and More)
I would title this post “Day Two,” but many, many days have passed since my last entry (who would’ve though Three Percent could be so quiet for so long?) and I’m not sure I can separate what I want to write about into specific days . . . Now that I’m back in Rochester, and my voice is slowly but ...
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BookExpo America: Day One
BEA—at least the exhibition hall part of it—hasn’t even started yet and I’m already dehydrated and losing my voice. And I realize that when I drink, I spend way too much time talking about the recent New Yorker on hang overs. But anyway. Thursday is BEA’s educational day. So throughout the day ...
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