Malvinas Requiem
In selling literature in translation, there糖心传媒檚 always a joke/fear that readers won糖心传媒檛 pick up a book by an author whose name they can糖心传媒檛 pronounce. Or if they do, that they糖心传媒檒l struggle dealing with names and places that are unfamiliar, with too many consonants, that are obviously foreign. Rodolfo Fogwill糖心传媒檚 Malvinas ...
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More Fogwill
I first heard about Fogwill from Javier Molea at McNally Robinson, who insisted that I read him. (I think the phrase Javier kept repeating was “mind-blowing.”) It was a great coincidence to find that Serpent’s Tail had just published Malvinas Requiem (Los Pichiciegos), and an even greater coincidence to find ...
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Interview with Pawel Huelle
This past weekend (yes, I’m still catching up), The Independent ran an interview with Polish author Pawel Huelle under the intriguing title, “Why cult Polish author Pawel Huelle thinks he’s a camel.” That’s explained away pretty quickly—he has two humps—and most of the interview ...
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Live Online, Jelinek's New Novel
Following on E.J.‘s call to make the texts of books available for free online, comes this announcement today from Serpent’s Tail about Nobel Prize winning author Elfriede Jelinek publishing her latest novel Envy on her website. According to the notice, “Chapters appear on Jelinek’s website as she ...
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