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Ersi Sotiropoulos Reading Today in NYC
Those who want a taste of new Greek writing--as well as of a Best Translated Award nominated writer--can check out this Ersi... »
Alberto Manguel’s Odd Bolano Pan
Writer Alberto Manguel is certainly a critic to be taken seriously. In reader-unfriendly times he has stuck up for reading as... »
Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery Reviewed @ TQC
The latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is Ahmad Saidullah's critique of Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery by Manuel... »
Published Off the Record
Wyatt Mason's adulatory essay on Leonard Michaels (the "contemporary American writer I most admired") offers a startling precis... »
Kamikaze Attacks on the Status Quo
Interesting essay by Heinrich von Kleist's translator Peter Wortsman, whose Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist was recently... »
Nice Moves
From Elisa Gabbert's review of the poetry collection PERSONATIONSKIN at Open Letters Monthly: I included... »
New Review @ TQC
The latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is of Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist, an author of which Thomas Mann... »
Literary Concentrate
One thing I've been noticing about the reviews of Point Omega is that just about everyone is calling the book extremely dense.... »
About a Mountain by John D’Agata
How did About a Mountain slip by me? Looks awesome. It sounds something like Don DeLillo, and D'Agata has been praised by DFW.... »
Wonder by Hugo Claus
The deeper I get into this year's Best Translated Book Award longlist, the clearer it is becoming how much deeper a list this... »

Alberto Manguel?s Odd Bolano Pan: Alberto Manguel?s Odd Bolano PanWriter Alberto Manguel is certainly a critic to ... http://bit.ly/dcb5Rr [link]
RT @mattbucher, what's happening re: the dreams in The Part About the Critics http://is.gd/7Z622 [link]
reading 600-page plaasroman. pretty good so far. [link]
Published Off the Record: Published Off the RecordWyatt Mason?s adulatory essay on Leonard Michaels (the ?contempo... http://bit.ly/bMlIm6 [link]
even when I was a dumb little high schooler, pretty much understood this was strictly for the super-lame kids http://tinyurl.com/y8tkzvu [link]
"Her fee was $100,000 for the appearance . . ." Sounds like a decent payoff for soaking up love from a group of morons. [link]
the stupid leading the imbecilic http://tinyurl.com/ye3r9ro [link]
Nice Moves: Nice MovesFrom Elisa Gabbert?s review of the poetry collection PERSONATIONSKIN at Open Letters Monthly... http://bit.ly/cOfUA6 [link]
About a Mountain by John D?Agata: About a Mountain by John D?AgataHow did About a Mountain slip by me? Looks aweso... http://bit.ly/axv3qo [link]
OMG!!! Daily Beast quoted M. Kakutani's pan of new DeLillo novel. Soooo not going to read it now! http://tinyurl.com/yke5buo [link]

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In advance of the 2008 olympics, China is trying to get rid of the bad Chinese-to-English translations found throughout Beijing. The Sun has graphics of the worst offenders.

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New Review @ TQC

Literary Concentrate

About a Mountain by John D’Agata

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