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dec 29, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
In a fascinating literary homage, photographer Rick Poynor visits the town of Terezin in the Czech Republic and returns with an essay about W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, complete with contemporary versions of the photographs that appear in Sebald’s book. At the Village Voice, rock writer Rob
mar 25, 2010 @ 1:26:00 pm - bookforum.com / paper trail
In publishing, it's all about who you know: Vanity Fair's interactive Bookopticon sorts out how ten up-and-coming authors are connected in the industry.
New York Books - The Complete Cosmicomics, a Holy Grail for Italo Calvino Fans - page 1
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Nick Cave is delightfully depraved - The Globe and Mail
The Death of Bunny Munro isn't just a novel, it's a song of praise to the ‘reptilian side of our brains'
apr 1, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
OK, here comes the flood: Reviews of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King are rushing in—a full two weeks before its tax-day publication date. Billy Joel’s memoir, The Book of Joel, was scheduled to come out with HarperCollins in June, but no more: The author has decided to not release the book.
mar 15, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
Critic David L. Ulin on nine literary earthquake books, including Haruki Murakami’s collection of stories, After the Quake, written after the 1995 Kobe earthquake: “Although in many of the pieces here the disaster plays only a peripheral part, it reverberates throughout the book like an
mar 28, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
As Borders goes bankrupt, its top executives may get big bonuses. The Financial Times profiles Mischief + Mayhem, a writer’s collective including novelists Dale Peck and Lisa Dierbeck (among others) who plan to bypass Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and reach readers through OR Books and some
apr 12, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
Dale Peck famously wrote that Rick Moody was the “worst writer of his generation.” Tonight, they share the stage at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Things may still get a little bit contentious, but that seems appropriate, given their discussion topic: Thomas Bernhard. Joining them to discuss the
nov 17, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
Farrar, Straus & Giroux president Jonathan Galassi has just completed an impressive new translation of Giacomo Leopardi's Canti, the nineteenth-century collection of forty-one poems that Joseph Luzzi characterizes in the new Bookforum as covering a "dazzling variety of styles and themes, from
nov 10, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am - bookforum.com / paper trail
David Rosenthal, who left his post at Simon & Schuster last summer, has been hired by Penguin USA to lead a new imprint. According to an article at the Times, the position will generate "competition between Penguin and Simon & Schuster," as Rosenthal pursues authors he has worked with in the past,
