Pub Date for “Night School: A Reader for Grownups” by Zsófia Bán!
To celebrate today's release of Night School: A Reader for Grownups by Zsófia Bán we're giving away five copies. You can enter by emailing Anthony Blake with "Night School" in the subject line. But hurry! This contest ends tonight at midnight Eastern time. Now, onto the book itself! We'll be posting a excerpt ...
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Why Are Ebooks [Let’s Talk about Catalonia]
Just like with last week's post, I want to kick off this mini-survey of a couple Catalan titles with a chart of the presses who have brought out the most Catalan translations (according to the Translation Database): My first response is: Thank god I finally realized how easy it is to change the color on these charts! I ...
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Radiant Terminus [Excerpt]
In support of Antoine Volodine as our featured "Author of the Month," throughout the day we'll be posting excerpts from the three books of his Open Letter has already published. (Next week we'll run excerpts from forthcoming ones . . . ) The last excerpt for today is from Radiant Terminus, translated from the French by ...
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Bardo or Not Bardo [Excerpt]
In support of Antoine Volodine as our featured "Author of the Month," throughout the day we'll be posting excerpts from the three books of his Open Letter has already published. (Next week we'll run excerpts from forthcoming ones . . . ) Next up is Bardo or Not Bardo, translated from the French by J.T. ...
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Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven [Excerpt]
In support of Antoine Volodine as our featured "Author of the Month," throughout the day we'll be posting excerpts from the three books of his Open Letter has already published. (Next week we'll run excerpts from forthcoming ones . . . ) First up is Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven, translated from the ...
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Antoine Volodine [Open Letter Author of the Month]
In addition to the monthly themes, another new series for 2019 is a monthly featured author from the Open Letter backlist. Each month we'll choose someone else from our backlist, write a number of posts about them and their work, and offer up a 30% on all purchases made during that month. And for January we've decided to ...
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“Four by Four” by Sara Mesa
Below is an excerpt from Four by Four by Sara Mesa, translated by Katie Whittemore. To give you a bit of context, I'm including the synopsis that Katie sent us with her original sample: The novel is composed of three sections, each written in a distinct narrative voice and style. In Part One, we are introduced to ...
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