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So Three Percent, the latest addition to blogs of international literature, is having us punters vote on the Best Translations of 2007. We do have one in there ourselves, and I'd never suggest you stuff the ballot box...
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So Three Percent, the latest addition to blogs of international literature, is having us punters vote on the Best Translations of 2007. We do have one in there ourselves, and I'd never suggest you stuff the ballot box...
A no-slouch-himself writer of sentences appreciates Elizabeth Hardwick's sentences. Via Jenny.
...to play New York City next year? Who knows. But it's enough to persuade me that after we do Martin Millar's Lonely Werewolf Girl in April, we should do his Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me in September. Check the interview in 3AM and the review at The Complete Review.
A Best Business Book of the Year from Strategy & Business Magazine. And THE Best Entrepreneurship Book..."[b]ecause David Silverman does not flinch from sharing the most painful and revealing lessons of his journey..."
Through the delightful and endless hustle of Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, we're partnering up with IndieFeed's Performance Poetry channel to present the "oral" in the oral history of slam we're publishing next month entitled Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam
Here's the schedule of interviews with some of the denizens of poetry slam who provided the raw material.
Bob Holman - Mon Dec 3rd
Maggie Estep - Wed Dec 5th
Hal Sirowitz - Friday Dec 7th
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez - Mon Dec 10th
Celena Glenn & the 2000 NYC-Urbana Team - Wed Dec 12th
Ed Garcia - Friday Dec 14th
John S. Hall - Mon Dec 17th
Mayda Del Valle - Wed Dec 19st
Ishle Yi Park - Friday Dec 21st
The LitBlogCoop Read This! has been announced: The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck. I wish I could tell you I'd read it, but I read nothing that's not a Soft Skull/Counterpoint (or would-be so) project. What I can say is that I'd heard all about it because Milkweed is blessed with one of the finest publicists in the business, Emily Cook—she knows how to put galleys in people's hands. It might be Vintage's publicist that gets the ink in NYC; but, you know, it's a little more challenging to be a one-woman-PR-band from Minneapolis promoting writers most no-one has ever heard of than to be promoting new Vintage paperbacks.
