$8.3 million literary-critic movie Deutsche Welle report that The Pope of German Letters Returns to TV, as they're making a $8.3 million-budget TV-movie of German super-critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki's autobiography, The Author of Himself -- though: the made-for-television movie will not concentrate on Reich-Ranicki's rise to fame as a literary critic. …
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Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008)
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200807a.htm#fr9Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008) It's being widely reported that Thomas M. Disch has died, a suicide on 4 July. (Posted by: complete review) …
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Atmospheric Disturbances review
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200807a.htm#fs2Atmospheric Disturbances review The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances. We had a couple of problems with the book. Certainly, having read Antonio Muñoz Molina's In her Absence -- with its almost identical opening scene/premise -- not too long ago didn't help. …
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Diderot's Diary
http://diderotsdiary.blogspot.comWyndham Lewis exhibit
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MOLESKINE LITERARIO
http://notasmoleskine.blogspot.comAs for Me and My House (1941) de Sinclair Ross en los primeros lugares, ahora integra nuevos nombres como Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Smart, Michael Ondaatje, Guy Vanderhaeghe y Leonard Cohen. (Vía The Literary Saloon)
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Canon canadiense
http://notasmoleskine.blogspot.com/2008/07/canon-canadiense....As for Me and My House (1941) de Sinclair Ross en los primeros lugares, ahora integra nuevos nombres como Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Smart, Michael Ondaatje, Guy Vanderhaeghe y Leonard Cohen. (Vía The Literary Saloon)
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Danilo Kiš’ first novel Mansarda in English translation
http://www.orbis-quintus.net/?p=3310Danilo Kiš’ first novel Mansarda is in English translation on a small press with little distribution
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www.literaryagenda.com
http://www.literaryagenda.comBlog Talk Szentkuthy Miklós profile | Mansarda review … July 4, 2008 At hlo József J. Fekete profiles ‘the Proteus... Scribner, Fall 2008 July 1, 2008 Coming in September 2008 Fine Just the Way It Is by... The Most Anticipated Books of the Rest of 2008
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Hermenautic Circle blog
http://hermenaut.orgd be curious to find out what these books are, although I can’t imagine the lists would ever be released. I wonder if they’ll release some kind of analysis of their findings at the end of the study… (via LS) ejvl and korean litearture translation institute and translation study Posted by E.J. Van Lanen in ejvl, korean litearture translation institute, translation study Originally posted at Three Percent - article
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Koreans Studying their Translated Works
http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/in...d be curious to find out what these books are, although I can’t imagine the lists would ever be released. I wonder if they’ll release some kind of analysis of their findings at the end of the study… (via LS)
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Koreans Studying their Translated Works
http://hermenaut.org/2008/07/03/koreans-studying-their-trans...d be curious to find out what these books are, although I can’t imagine the lists would ever be released. I wonder if they’ll release some kind of analysis of their findings at the end of the study… (via LS)
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Conversational Reading
http://www.conversationalreading.com* Chad Post lets the cat out of the bag that NYRB will be publishing the 1600-page book on Borges by Morel-author and best friend Adolfo Bioy Casares (albeit, somewhat abridged) * This just sounds odd: "The city of Frankfurt's prestigious art museum, the Schirn, cancelled Friday its plans for a literary art exhibition because Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk failed to write a book on time." Actually sounded like a cool exhibit . . . * Each Iranian reads one book every 1892 days * But reading in Spain is booming * The era of the disposable book. How about, instead of rushing out to publish junk like Jonah Goldberg's latest feast of
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THURSDAY MARGINALIA
http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2008/07/thursday-margin....Harry, Revised for our aborted D.C. visit) ... Africa News reports on the growing success of Kwani Litfest ... The great Hungarian novelist George Konrad is interviewed at Hungarian Literature Online (via) ... Joyce Carol Oates? Slacker! Philip Roth? Layabout! Consider Rajesh Kumar with 1,250 novels and 2,000 short stories to his name ... Prague writer Lenka Reinerová has died at 92 ... A groovy Colm Toibin picture
