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December 15, 2009
Covering Eco 0
by C. Max Magee
Following up on a contest to redesign the cover of Lolita, Venus Febriculosa is at it again with a contest to redesign the cover of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. The prize this time is a whopping $1,000.
December 15, 2009
Translated Books Giveaway 0
by C. Max Magee
Those who donate to The Center for the Art of Translation get a chance to receive books signed by a pair of the top translators working today, Natasha Wimmer and Breon Mitchell.
December 15, 2009
A Year in Reading: Emily St. John Mandel 0
by Emily St. John Mandel
Shaun Tan’s suburbia is a haunted place, sometimes banal and sometimes beautiful, populated by strange apparitions—a water buffalo who lives in a vacant lot and gives directions to children in need
December 14, 2009
Some Choice DFW Links 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
GQ offers an insightful interview with The New Yorker‘s Deborah Treisman on the subject of editing David Foster Wallace…while elsewhere, the German translation of Infinite Jest – Un Endlicher Spass – becomes an unlikely hit. (via)
December 14, 2009
A Year in Reading: Elizabeth Kostova 0
by Elizabeth Kostova
A Tale of Two Cities contains all the hallmarks of the Victorian tearjerker. I was riveted from the first–or, perhaps, the second–sentence–and I wept over the last.
December 14, 2009
Jonathan Franzen, Honesty and the Lines of Literature 7
by Daniel Silliman
In Tübingen, Jonathan Franzen talked candidly and casually about his struggles as a writer. En route, though, he made a stealthy attempt to re-frame literature so that he and his project occupied its absolute center.
