Literary Gate Keepers
This actually came out in last week’s Time Out New York, but Michael Miller’s piece on how a book goes from writer to reader is pretty interesting and touches on some of the knotty issues surrounding publication and publicity. Miller briefly hits on the various gate keepers of book culture: agents, editors, ...
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Blue Metropolis Update
Following on E.J.‘s post from yesterday, the complete schedule for the festival is now available and online (and primarily in ...
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Latest Review: Secret Weapon
Our latest review is of Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu’s Secret Weapon:Selected Late Poems (recently released by Coffee House) and was written by Annie Horanyi, who has been interning with Open Letter and has serving as the managing editor for the review section. This collection sounds really interesting, and if ...
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Perfect RTW Bookstore
Thanks to Literary Rapture for bringing Idlewild Books to our attention. According to its sparse website, Idlewild is a beautiful new store and event space near Union Square, is New York City’s only bookshop specializing in travel and international literature. A bookstore organized by country rather than ...
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Reading the World 2008 Website
The Reading the World website for 2008 is now online, complete with info about all 25 titles (from 15 different presses), info about participating bookstores, how to sign up, how to get on the mailing list, etc. In case you’re not already familiar with this, RTW is an innovative collaboration between publishers and ...
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Association of Asian Studies Conference in Atlanta
This past weekend, I was able to attend the AAS conference in Atlanta and speak on a roundtable about “The Translation and Publication of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Strategies and Resources” put together by the Japanese Literature Publishing and Promotion Center. I’ve written about J-Lit a few times ...
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Latest Review: Knowledge of Hell
Our latest review is the first of two Antonio Lobo Antunes reviews we’ll be posting over the next couple months. (The other being What Can I Do When Everything’s on Fire? forthcoming from W.W. Norton.) I’ve been a fan of Antunes’s for years, and since this review is a bit mixed (it really is a great ...
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