German Book Prize Shortlist
In other news from last week, the shortlist for the 2008 German Book Prize has been announced. Here are the six finalists: Dietmar Dath: Die Abschaffung der Arten (Suhrkamp) Sherko Fatah: Das dunkle Schiff (Jung und Jung) Iris Hanika: Treffen sich zwei (Droschl) Rolf Lappert: Nach Hause schwimmen (Hanser) Ingo ...
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More about the End of Book Culture as We Know It
I realize this is an old article (I think I’ll be catching up for days . . .), but this piece in the Independent is strange, conventional, and interesting all at once. Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age? starts with the question of how the internet age is changing the way we read, with Nicholas ...
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CALQUE Interview with Pratilipi
The always interesting CALQUE blog posted an interview over the weekend with the editors of Pratilipi, a relatively new bimonthly web magazine dedicated to publishing and promoting Indian writers from a number of regions and languages. Their goals are really quite ambitious and include a future print edition with a ...
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Publishing in Russia
Not too far removed from the New York article, is this piece from the Moscow News about the recent Moscow International Book Fair. The Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF), which takes place every September, is considered the biggest event in the domestic publishing area, and a benchmark for conclusions about ...
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Latest Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Our latest review is of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first book in the “Millennium Series.” (The other two titles—The Girl Who Played with Fire and Castles in the Sky—will be available from MacLehose Press in the UK in January 2009 and January 2010 respectively. Not sure ...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
In his 2001 article, “Scandinavian Crime Novels: Too Much Angst and Not Enough Entertainment?” author Bo Tao Michaëlis relates an American publisher friend’s understanding of Scandinavian crime novels: You [Scandinavians] contrive to express this simultaneously social and existential anxiety in your crime novels ...
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New York on the (Bleak) Future of Publishing
Going into it, I expected to disagree vehemently with Boris Kachka’s article about the publishing industry that’s simply titled, The End. But after reading the entire thing, and discovering that he’s primarily concerned with “the end” of commercial publishing, I found this rather well-thought out ...
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