A short history of Granta
The Guardian provides a short history of Granta: Buford then performed a clever trick. For Issue 7 he seized upon an initiative of the Book Marketing Council to promote the Best of Young British Novelists, and a whole new publishing gimmick was born. The list included Amis, McEwan, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and Pat ...
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Bookstore in a church
Whoever said that reading was a religious experience was right, especially when taking a visit to Selexyz Dominicanen in Maastricht, Netherlands. ...
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Steven G. Kellman on Nabokov's "Lectures on Literature"
Steven Kellman at Critical Mass has a nice little piece on Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature, which is one of my favorite books: However, what continues to enlighten and inspire me more than the lectures on individual novels are the introductory and concluding chapters, in which Nabokov sets forth his views on how ...
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The plight of independent book publishing
right reading is starting a brief series on the plight of independent book publishing in the US. Today they detail the history of merger and acquisition. It’s easy to get so immersed in a subject that you lose track of how much of it is generally known. alfred a. knopfI’ve been talking about the difficulties of ...
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Handke's papers find a home
The National Library of Austria has acquired the papers of Peter Handke for 500,000
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Sagan love triangle
A former magazine editor has caused a sensation in Parisian literary circles with a memoir exposing the “love triangle” she shared with Françoise Sagan and the famous novelist’s boyfriend. The relationship between Annick Geille, a former editor of French Playboy, and the wayward, waif-like Sagan was an open ...
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