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NPR and The Sailor from Gibraltar

Jessa Crispin (the woman behind Bookslut) wrote a great reivew of Marguerite Duras’s The Sailor from Gibraltar) for NPR: But this is a novel by the cerebral French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras, so nothing much happens at all. And it’s all the more thrilling because of it. There are long philosophical ...

Best Valentine's Day Gift

This is a pretty self-promotional post, but we really appreciated Karen Vanuska’s comment on her blog about The Sailor from Gibraltar: received my copy of The Sailor from Gibraltar from Open Letter Books today. For a blissful half hour, I stopped grading papers, working on articles and reviews and working on ...

One More LibraryThing Post

This actually went up a while ago, but we’re giving away copies of The Sailor from Gibraltar by Marguerite Duras, and Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis in this month’s Early Reviewers program, so be sure to go and request a copy . . . ...