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The 2011 Edgar Award Winners for mysteries.
Your time is up, publishers. Book piracy is about to arrive on a massive scale
Your time is up, publishers. Book piracy is about to arrive on a massive scale
Adrian Hon, founder and chief creative at Six to Start, an online games company, writing in The Telegraph:
“If book publishers want to see the next decade in any reasonable health, then it’s absolutely imperative that they rethink their pricing strategies and business models right now.”
Haruki Murakami interview about his new novel: 1Q84
20 Non-Fiction Writers under 40
20 Non-Fiction Writers under 40
In response to all the “X fiction writers under Y” lists floating about this year, the New Haven Review has come up with a list of twenty notable non-fiction writers under the age of forty.
Granta has announced its Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists issue. To be published first in Spanish as Los mejores narradores jovenes en español with an English edition to follow on November 25th. The novelists:
ANDRÉS BARBA – Spain, b. 1975
OLIVERIO COELHO – Argentina, b. 1977
ANDRÉS RESSIA COLINO – Uruguay, b. 1977
FEDERICO FALCO – Argentina, b. 1977
PABLO GUTIÉRREZ – Spain, b. 1978
RODRIGO HASBÚN – Bolivia, b. 1981
SÒNIA HERNÁNDEZ – Spain, b. 1976
CARLOS LABBÉ – Chile, b. 1977
JAVIER MONTES – Spain, b. 1976
ELVIRA NAVARRO – Spain, b. 1978
MATÍAS NÉSPOLO – Argentina, b. 1975
ANDRÉS NEUMAN – Argentina, b. 1977
ALBERTO OLMOS – Spain, b. 1975
POLA OLOIXARAC – Argentina, b. 1977
ANTONIO ORTUÑO – Mexico, b. 1976
PATRICIO PRON – Argentina, b. 1975
LUCÍA PUENZO – Argentina, b. 1976
SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO – Peru, b. 1975
ANDRÉS FELIPE SOLANO – Colombia, b. 1977
SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN – Argentina, b. 1978
CARLOS YUSHIMITO – Peru, b. 1977
ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA – Chile, b. 1975
Time Out Chicago recommends 13 books as Summer 2010 reads, including “Kraken” by China Mieville: “In his new one, magical underground forces in London want to release a giant squid god, and a hapless cephalopod expert discovers he holds the key to unleashing the deity. We repeat: giant squid god.”
Now, a larger problem. Books in their digital format look vastly less ‘finished,’ less genuine. And we can vary their font and type size, making them resemble all the more our own word-processed manuscripts … . All the e-books I’ve read have been ugly — books by Chang-rae Lee, Alvin Kernan, Stieg Larsson — though the texts have been wonderful. But I didn’t grow up reading texts. I grew up reading books. The difference is important.
100 Best Arabic Books (according to the Arab Writers Union)
100 Best Arabic Books (according to the Arab Writers Union)
And the best? According to the Arab Writers Union, “The Cairo Trilogy” by Egyptian (Nobel-prize winning) author Naguib Mahfouz. The blog post includes publication data and whether an English translation is available.
The Library Journal on Steampunk’s twenty core titles, including both the classics and more recent works.
