What are the Germans saying?
So I wish there were the hours in the day that would allow me to blog at length about the German Book Office trip to meet with a great many German publishers and editors, mostly though not exclusively independent, a trip that also included Lauren Wein from Grove, Dennis Loy Johnson from Melville House, Katie Dublinski from Graywolf, Cal Barksdale from Arcade, and Rachel Deahl from Publishers Weekly. Suffice it to say that if any country's cultural apparatus invites you to do such a thing, you do it. You do it, and then you apologize for the fact that such visit will never be reciprocated by your own damn government...
Anyway, the one thing I have to offer is something called SignandSight.com A condensation, in English, of the various cultural reporting from both German newspapers and papers and magazines from around the world. It should be on every culture blogger's column of links, me thinks...