Sony eReader vs. Amazon's Kindle
From Financial Times (free registration required—why does anyone do this anymore?): Sony launched the Reader in October 2006 with quite a fanfare. It is a light, book-sized gadget with a screen made by a technology company called E-Ink that is easier and more restful to read than a computer’s and needs no ...
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Two Great New Literary Blogs
It’s always great to uncover (or be told about) great new literary blogs, and last week I found about a couple of really impressive ones. The first is Salonica World Lit which bears the slogan “Exploit. Explore. Examine. A Blog Dedicated to International Literature.” This is done by Monica Carter of ...
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Interview with Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Over at A Journey Round My Skull, Will Schofield has a fascinating interview with the translator Gilbert Alter-Gilbert. Alter-Gilbert has translated a number of interesting authors, including Miguel Angle Asturias, Vincente Huidobro, Oliverio Girondo, Marie Redonnet, and Leopoldo Lugones. Since Alter-Gilbert is also a ...
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August Issue of Words Without Borders
Another new issue that’s now available is the August version of Words Without Borders, which is dedicated to “Writings on Psychiatry.” Ever since Freud, analysts have decamped in August, leaving their patients to fend for themselves till September. To compensate for this absence, we prescribe a healthy ...
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Strange Harbors
While I was out of the office last week, the new issue of Two Lines arrived. This is the fifteenth volume of Two Lines, which is really impressive, and as always, the production quality and contents are both excellent. The “theme” of this particular issue is “Strange Harbors,” which can be ...
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A Translation of a Translation
I have to admit that I was surprised to see this info line in today’s PW fiction review section: The Howling Miller Arto Paasilinna, trans. from the Finnish into French by Anne Colin du Terrail; trans. from the French by Will Hobson. Canongate, $14 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-84767-181-3 One would think that with ...
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
As has already been written up everywhere, Alexander Solzhenitsyn died on Sunday, supposedly after a stroke. Solzhenitsyn is most well known for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (which was part of the first ever Reading the World promotion) and the Gulag Archipelago trilogy. Russia Today has a nice overview video ...
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