This Should Be a Facebook/iPhone App
It would be cool to visually share one’s own recommendations of world literature like Richard Whitehead does in The National. His recommendations are interesting, but it’s too bad he doesn’t include more books from more places . . ...
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Upcoming Events Pt. II: Has the US Lost Touch with World Literature?
If only teleporting was cheap, and, you know, possible . . . Friday, January 23, 2009 7:00pm – 9:00pm Housing Works Bookstore Café 126 Crosby Street New York, NY Panelists Esther Allen, translator, former co-director of PEN World Voices, author of International PEN report on Translation and Globalization; ...
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America, Where We're Always Late
Over at the Literary Saloon, Michael Orthofer makes note of the Biblioasis International Translation Series, and Stephen Henighan’s recent speech about translations.. The thing that caught my eye thought was this bit about Angolan author Ondjaki, whose Good Morning Comrades will be the second book in the Biblioasis ...
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