Zinio, oh Zinio
PW Daily today pointed us to Zinio, who are giving away more than 100 classics on their site and who “wanted to showcase the most impressive on-screen reading experience while maintaining the integrity and feel of the old classics.” What this means: You can go to their site, and browse their “virtual ...
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Languagehat on Nabokov in English and Russian
Having finished Proust, my wife and I have started reading Speak, Memory at bedtime, and I am reading the corresponding section of the Russian version, Drugie berega [Other shores], afterwards; I want to make a post about the amazing Russian tradition of literary autobiographies and memoirs (and autobiographical novels), ...
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World Literature Forum
Mr. Othofer brought this to our attention the other day (and now Mark Thwaite has reminded us again in the comments) and I meant to post about it right away, but it’s still not too late: go check out the World Literature Forum. It looks like its just getting started, so you finally have a chance to get in on the ...
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The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival
The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, which has apparently been going on for a while now, was just brought to our attention: The 10th annual edition of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival will take place April 30–May 4, 2008 at the Delta-Centre-Ville Hotel as over 350 ...
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Solzhenitsyn, still at it
Russia’s greatest living novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, is working feverishly to complete his collected works and is writing every day despite failing health, a missing vertebra and being unable to walk, his wife, Natalia, revealed yesterday. In a rare interview, Natalia Solzhenitsyn told The Observer that ...
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Barcelona and Merce Rodoreda
Barcelona is celebrating the centenary of the birth of Mercè Rodoreda, author of well-known works like La Plaça del Diamant (The Time of the Doves) and Mirall Trencat (Broken Mirror), with a programme of events that does not focus on the writer we all know but on her less well-known works. As culture councillor ...
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Mafeking Road and Other Stories
The stories in Mafeking Road are set in the Transvaal region of what is now South Africa at the turn of the 20th century, when the local Boer population were at war with the British in a conflict that is known as the Boer War. The British were seeking to re-establish that part of southern Africa as a British colony, following ...
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