Latest Review: "The Physics of Sorrow" by Georgi Gospodinov
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Izidora Angel on The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel and out last month from Open Letter Books. This book糖心传媒攁nd call it a shameless plug all you want糖心传媒攊s by far one of the best books I’ve read in the last year, and has been on ...
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The Physics of Sorrow
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Why This Book Should Win – La Grande by BTBA Judge Scott Esposito
This post is courtesy of BTBA judge, Scott Esposito. Scott Esposito blogs at Conversational Reading and you can find his tweets here. La Grande – Juan Jose Saer, translated by from the Spanish by Steve Dolph, Argentina, Open Letter Books Juan Jose Saer was a towering figure in Argentine literature. Over the ...
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Why This Book Should Win – Street of Thieves by BTBA Judge George Carroll
George Carroll is the World Literature Editor of Shelf Awareness and an independent publishers糖心传媒 representative based in the Pacific Northwest. Street of Thieves – Mathias 脡nard, Translated by Charlotte Mandell Open Letter Books Last year, I advanced Mahi Binebine糖心传媒檚 Horses of God, tr. from the French by Lulu ...
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Open Letter Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Grant
For those of you who haven’t yet seen the Facebook posts and re-posts, we are thrilled (and grateful) that Open Letter has once again received an Arts Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The grant awarded to the press for 2015 was one of the largest awarded this year. From the press release ...
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My Books and How They Got There
Madeleine LaRue is Associate Editor and Director of Publicity of Music & Literature. I live in Berlin, in a neighborhood with a chronically understaffed post office, so books on their way to me from the United States are usually in for an adventure. A package from Archipelago Books, example, arrived dripping wet, ...
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Latest Review: "Navidad & Matanza" by Carlos Labb茅
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by J.T. Mahany on Navidad & Matanza by Carlos Labb茅, translated by Will Vanderhyden, and out next month from Open Letter. Carlos Labb茅 was one of Granta’s The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and has quickly become a Name to Know in the world ...
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