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Good-Bye
Good-Bye Yoshihiro Tatsumi As often as I read graphic novels I often feel there is something lacking, the story perhaps, or maybe the characters, but I think it is the drawings themselves. They draw on traditions or images that once were pulp with little to say and the visual connection between the two weakens the [...]
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When a Librarian Goes Wrong? Nancy Pearl’s Amazon Deal
The Seattle Times today had a big piece about Seattle’s favorite librarian superstar Nancy Pearl and her new deal to publish a few out of print books every year for just the Kindle. I’ve listened to Pearl off and on for years on KUOW which is my local public radio station. She’s on all the [...]
The Short Stories of Francisco Urondo Reviewed at El Pais
I’ve never heard of Francisco Urondo a Argentine writer and revolutionary who died at 46 in 1976. A collection of his short stories has just been published in Spain and El Pais has a good review of them. While he was a committed leftist revolutionary, something that should lend itself to didactic literature, according to [...]
Interview with António Lobo Antunes at El Pais
El Pais has a long interview with António Lobo Antunes about his writing practices and how he has developed his style. It also mentions that since September when he finished his last book he has not been able to write anything new. P. Siempre dice que los libros incluyen su propia clave para entenderlos y [...]
In Defense of Blogers – The Committe 2 Protect Geeks
O’Reilly Media had a conference recently where Danny O’Brien pointed out some of the harsh treatment bloggers can get at the hands of authoritarian governments. They can get imprisoned even for writing about non political subjects such as technology. Definitely worth a watch.
The Spanish E-Book Wars Have Started
El Pais has an article about the start of the Spanish e-book wars that Amazon has started. It is fairly typical of what we have seen in the US. The One big exception is how the Amazon is getting around the fixed book price law in Spain. Apparently, Amazon claims that they are selling direct [...]
Margaret B. Carson, Translator of Sergio Chejfec, Interviewed at Conversational Reading
There’s a great interview at Conversational Reading with Margaret B. Carson the translator of Sergio Chejfec’s My Two Worlds. It is a book that the more I hear about the more I want to take it off my shelves and read. This in particular caught my eye (once I was accused of writing German sentences [...]
The Black Minutes by Martín Solares – A Review of a Mexican Noir
The Black Minutes Martín Solares Black Cat 2010, pg 436 If you’ve read anything about Mexico in the last few years then you know something about The Black Minutes by Martín Solares. The Black Minutes is one of a growing trend of crime novels that, in some ways, are replacing the novel of the cacique [...]
Álvaro Pombo Wins the Nadal Prize with El temblor del héroe
Álvaro Pombo has won the Nadal Prize for El temblor del héroe, a book that is a criticism of the insensitivity of these times of crisis. That’s all I know about the book which will appear in February. You can read the notice from El Pais and from La Vanguardia. From el Pais: Además de [...]
Interview with Laura Freixas About her New Book at La Vanguardia
La Vanguardia interviewed Laura Freixas about her new book, Los otros son más felice. La carrera de Laura Freixas es fruto del esmero por mantenerse firmemente anclada en el compromiso con una literatura que es y quiere ser femenina. Freixas nunca ha disimulado que le interesa proponer la mirada de la mujer sobre el mundo [...]
