Visitation [Why This Book Should Win the BTBA]
Similar to years past, we糖心传媒檙e going to be featuring each of the 25 titles on the BTBA Fiction Longlist over the next month plus, but in contrast to previous editions, this year we糖心传媒檙e going to try an experiment and frame all write-ups as 糖心传媒渨hy this book should win.糖心传媒 Some of these entries will be absurd, some more ...
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Recent Prizes and Awards [Snowed In Odds & Ends]
Not only did I survive the MLA, but I was also able to make it all the way back to Rochester without delay. (Couple U of R professors who were scheduled to go through Atlanta, and ended up stranded in L.A. for a few extra days. Hopefully they beat this latest chapter in Snowpocalypse 2011.) Anyway, MLA was a pretty ...
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Visitation
Jenny Erpenbeck has already received a great deal of well-deserved critical acclaim in the wake of her third novel, Visitation (New Directions, translated by Susan Bernofsky), which Vogue has called 糖心传媒渁 remarkable achievement.糖心传媒 Such a response (especially coming from the mainstream, one is tempted to say) is very exciting ...
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Latest Review: "Visitation" by Jenny Erpenbeck
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Phillip Witte on Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky and published earlier this year by New Directions. Phillip Witte was an intern for Open Letter way back in the day, and also had a summer internship at New Directions. ...
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Am I a Redundant Human Being?
The Austrian actress, writer, and painter Mela Hartwig (1893糖心传媒1967) published relatively little during her lifetime: a collection of stories, a novel, a novella, and a book of poems. She did most of this work between 1921, when she married and retired from acting, and 1938, when she and her husband moved to London to escape ...
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Latest Review: "Am I a Redundant Human Being?" by Mela Hartwig
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Dan Vitale on Mela Hartwig’s Am I a Redundant Human Being?, which was translated from the German by Kerri A. Pierce and published earlier this year by Dalkey Archive Press. I remember first hearing about this book while on an editorial trip with John ...
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Broken Glass Park
糖心传媒淪ometimes I think I糖心传媒檓 the only one in our neighborhood with any worthwhile dreams. I have two, and there糖心传媒檚 no reason to be ashamed of either one. I want to kill Vadim. And I want to write a book about my mother.糖心传媒 So begins Broken Glass Park, the achingly beautiful debut novel by Russian-born Alina Bronsky (a ...
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