Of Course I Have My Eyes Closed
Here’s an article about the editors trip to Buenos Aires that I participated in last month. It’s a nice overview article on a few of the editors who participated in the trip, including Cristiana Costa, Patricia van Daalen, Claudia Stein, Ori Preuss and Gianluca Catalano. Nice background on the program itself ...
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Reading the World 2008: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Doubling up on RTW book posts today . . . This is the sixth 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 ...
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Reading the World 2008: The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu
This is the fifth entry in our series covering all twenty-five Reading the World 2008 titles. (We’re 20% of the way there!) 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 ...
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Book Publishing Manifesto for the 21st Century
Over the past week at The Digitalist — a blog by the digital team at Pan Macmillan — Sara Lloyd has been serializing her forthcoming Library Trends article on “how traditional publishers need to position themselves in the changing media flows of a networked era.” Taken as a whole, this is a really ...
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Reading the World 2008: The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret
This is the fourth entry in our series covering all twenty-five Reading the World 2008 titles. 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 ...
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Reading the World 2008: The Assistant by Robert Walser
This is the third entry in our series covering all twenty-five Reading the World 2008 titles. 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 ...
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21st Annual Translation Prizes
I’m sure this has been written about already, but I just received the invitation to the 21st Annual Translation Prize ceremony sponsored by the French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation. Every year these two foundations give out a prize to the best fiction and non-fiction translations from French into ...
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