Three-Light Years
I would like to pose the argument that it is rare for one to ever come across a truly passive protagonist in a novel. The protagonist (perhaps) of Three Light-Years, Claudio Viberti, is just that糖心传媒攁 shy internist who lives in an apartment above his mother and below his ex-wife, and religiously eats boiled vegetables every ...
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Latest Review: "Three-Light Years" by Andrea Canobbio
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Tiffany Nichols on Andrea Cannobio’s Three Light-Years, translated by Anne Milano Appel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Friday the 13th! Go catch some black cats before the weekend! Here’s the beginning of Tiffany’s review: I would like to ...
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Talking to Ourselves
If you somehow managed to overlook the 2012 translation of Andr茅s Neuman’s breathtaking Traveler of the Century (and woe betide all whom continue to do so), you now have two exceptional works of fiction from the young Argentine virtuoso demanding your immediate attention. Accolades aplenty have been piling up for ...
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Latest Review: "Talking to Ourselves" by Andr茅s Neuman
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Jeremy Garber on Talking to Ourselves by Andr茅s Neuman, translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, out from FSG. Andr茅s Neuman has quickly become an in-house name here at Open Letter/Three Percent, and, as Jeremy hints at in his review, everyone either ...
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My Poems Won't Change the World
糖心传媒淭he more bored you are, the more attached you get. I糖心传媒檓 so bored, I no longer want to die.糖心传媒 So reads an entire poem by Patrizia Cavalli (translated by Gini Alhadeff) confirming for many critics of poetry what they糖心传媒檝e always believed: poets are gloomy, self-pitying bastards. *** The (incredibly exaggerated) ...
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Latest Review: "My Poems Won't Change the World" by Patrizia Cavalli
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Vincent Francone on Patrizia Cavalli’s My Poems Won’t Change the World, out from FSG. Vincent is a regular contributor here, and I can guarantee that his review will give you some great poet-poetry insight and a few laughs for this chilly Monday morning ...
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The Art of Joy
Readers love a good story. But they really love a good author bio. If an author糖心传媒檚 life story is interesting, readers get excited. They share a book with friends by first telling them about the writer. Oh, this Bola帽o guy糖心传媒攈e was a heroin addict and was in a Chilean jail and should糖心传媒檝e been killed but some high school ...
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