Alane Salierno Mason on Big Think
Alane Salierno Mason, the founder of Words Without Borders, got interviewed at Big Think about literature in translation: They have several other videos with her as well: on publishers (as they say, “A few stoic houses are carrying the torch for literature in translation.”), on the founding of Words Without ...
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Dubravka on the BBC
Dubravka Ugresic’s Baba Yaga Laid an Egg was recently published in the UK as a part of The Myths series—“a long-term global publishing project where some of the world’s most respected authors re-tell myths in a manner of their own choosing.” She appeared on BBC Radio 4 recently to discuss the ...
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A Translation Roundtable
The Observer Translation Project, which we’ve mentioned here before, posted a really cool translation roundtable/interview that they conducted recently: World-famous novelist Norman Manea, two premier experts in the realm of literature in translation—Susan Harris of Words Without Borders and Chad Post of Three ...
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The Private Lives of Trees
We wanted to post this article about Alejandro Zambra in The Nation when it came out a few weeks ago, but we were in the middle of trying to sign Zambra up, so we wanted to wait until it was official. Readers who consider Roberto Bolano the pole star of contemporary Chilean fiction will be jolted by Zambra’s ...
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Kindle and DRM
The customer rep asked me to send every one of the books in my Amazon library to my iPhone. Most of them gave the message that they were sent but a number of them returned the message “Cannot be sent to selected device”. “Oh that’s the problem,” he said “if some of the books will download and the others ...
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Enard's Zone wins Le prix du Livre Inter 2009
Mathias Enard’s Zone, which Open Letter is proud to be publishing next May, has won Le prix du Livre Inter 2009. The prize is awarded by France Inter, which is a public radio station in France (their podcasts are great if you’re trying to learn French!). It’s a unique prize: France Inter invites 24 listeners ...
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Issue 16 of The Quarterly Conversation
Issue 16 (16!) of The Quarterly Conversation is now available, and, as always, there’s a lot of great content, including an excerpt from one of our forthcoming titles, The Museum of Eterna’s Novel. In addition to an interview with one of our favorite authors, Amanda Michalopolou (or, as Chad likes to call her, ...
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