Umberto Eco and Salman Rushdie in Rochester for PEN World Voices
We’ve been planning this for the past few months (basically ever since the NYSCA sponsorted Facing Pages retreat last October), but we’re really pleased to finally be able to publicly announce that on May 1st, Open Letter will be hosting a PEN World Voices event here in Rochester featuring Umberto Eco and Salman ...
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Dirda on Bolano
We’ll be posting our own glowing review of Nazi Literature in the Americas later this week, but in the meantime, here’s a bit from Michael Dirda’s review in this week’s Washington Post Let me admit, straight off, that any reviewer might feel hesitant before recommending a book called Nazi ...
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Titlepage Goes Live
After a couple months of waiting, Titlepage.tv is finally here. I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet—it’s just over an hour long—and I can’t say that I’m jumping up and down about any of the featured books/authors featured on this episode: Lush Life by Richard Price, The Finder by ...
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Quarterly Conversation #11
The new issue of Quarterly Conversation is now available, and full of interesting pieces including reviews of Lydie Salvayre’s The Power of Flies, Dorothea Dieckmann’s Guantanamo (which won our inaugural Best Translation of 2007 award), and Yousef Al-Mohaimeed’s Wolves of the Crescent Moon. There’s ...
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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist
As covered at Ready Steady Book, the shortlist of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has just been announced. Here are your six finalists: Lars Saabye Christensen, The Model (Don Barlett; Norwegian; Arcadia Books) Pawel Huelle, Castorp (Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Polish; Serpent’s Tail) Daniel ...
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One Writer on Digital Rights, or, We All Just Wanna Get Paid
In reference to E.J.‘s post yesterday about Random House giving away a downloadable pdf version of Beautiful Children (for a limited time only, so get yours — oh nevermind, don’t believe the hype, I downloaded it and got through a paragraph before deleting the whole stinking mess), here’s a ...
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Barbara Hoffert on Tadeusz Rozewicz's "New Poems"
Over at Critical Mass, they’ve been highlighting all of the NBCC Award finalists in preparation for the ceremony on March 6th. This is one of my favorite CM features, in part because they have such great, knowledgeable critics offering up short takes on all thirty finalists. Such as Barbara Hoffert’s piece on ...
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