10 May 2012
The winning titles and translators of this year’s Best Translated Book Award were announced at McNally Jackson Books on May 4th as part of the PEN World Voices Festival. In poetry, Kiwao Nomura’s Spectacle & Pigsty, translated from the Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander, took the top honor, and Wiesław Myśliwski’s Stone Upon Stone, translated from the [...]
2 May 2012
In Sheet Music, Robert Gibb considers the natural world as well as the man-made one via the gaze of music…creating via language what otherwise might be drawn on score paper as musical notation.
23 Apr 2012
It’s not always the case, but Americans are feeling pretty good about the French these days…. If you’re the type of person who’s even once considered wearing a beret, I thoroughly recommend reading Elaine Dundy’s first novel, ‘The Dud Avocado.’
20 Apr 2012
Electric Literature has embarked on a wonderful new project in the quest to give undiscovered writers the recognition and readership they deserve. “Great authors inspire us. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, the latest project from Electric Literature, will publish one story every week, each chosen by a great author or editor. [...]
18 Apr 2012
by R. Salvador Reyes
Poets move like shoals of fish through the ocean of our literary history. But there are those few loners, the daredevils, the quixotic…
9 Apr 2012
Catherine Chung’s debut novel, Forgotten Country, weaves Korean folklore and history within a modern narrative of immigration and identity.
2 Apr 2012
Spanning a hundred years, Jessica Maria Tuccelli’s debut novel, Glow,is a tale of generations and the generational legacy of American race relations.
28 Mar 2012
We talk with author Amelia Gray about her innovative and ominous debut novel, Threats.
Liz Moore. Word for Word Series, Bryant Park, 7.7.10 from Tottenville Review on Vimeo.
Followed by an afternoon talk with Jennifer Egan and Jane Mendelsohn.