The Future of Reading
Some of the ‘Acts’ are a little meh, and I’m particularly sick of everyone comparing everything to 1984, but there are some goodies about Amazon’s new Kindle, which I expect to have completely forgotten in 6 months time. Act I: The act of buying When someone buys a book, they are also ...
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Amazon Kindle
Amazon launched their sinfully ugly e-book reader, the Kindle, today. Click here to get the complete list of books available for the $400 device, which is saddled, sadly, with DRM. Newsweek was nice enough to allow them to advertise their Kindle on its cover this week, if you want to read about it. I was following the ...
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War & Peace all the time
I know, I know. We’re always on about this War and Peace thing, but in the upcoming New Yorker James Wood writes one of the best reviews of War and Peace I’ve read from the batch that have followed the latest translations. It’s the good kind of review; the kind that makes you want to pick up the book ...
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Picador to go paperback
This is something that is particularly interesting to us, as we’re still deciding on how exactly to package our books. Picador—following what seems to me to be a growing trend—is going paperback. Now Picador, an imprint of Pan MacMillan, the 8th largest publisher in the UK, which has authors such as ...
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Pamuk interview
Columbia Magazine has an interview with Orhan Pamuk: Zanganeh: So you decided to live with your mother and write. Pamuk: Yes, until I was 30 I didn’t earn a single kopek, and I lived at my divorced mother’s house. I lived the strange life of a crazy boy who might one day become a writer. My friends had real ...
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Andrzej Stasiuk's Dojczland
Signandsight.com has a translated review of Dojczland by the Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk, which is apparently topping the bestseller lists in Poland: As well as scrutinising today’s Germans, this slim volume – just 112 pages – also picks apart the Poles. At first glance it seems to be a travel book. Stasiuk ...
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Dedi on the Miami Book Fair
Over at Words Without Borders, Dedi Felman has some thoughts on last week’s Miami Book Fair International/Translation ...
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