Literature – Page 7

Celebration / Literature / Poetry / Translation / Translator

April 3, 2012

Celebrating Serge Gavronsky

Conflicts in Translation: A Tribute to Serge Gavronsky with Serge Gavronsky, Mary Ann Caws, Lydia Davis, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Richard Sieburth FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012 2-6 PM JAMES ROOM, FOURTH FLOOR, BARNARD HALL...

Agitprop / Essays / Homage / Intellectuals / Literature / Poetry

March 29, 2012

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

Adrienne Rich: a major loss. See also her Pennsound page. “But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather”

Interview / Literature / Poetry / Small Presses / Uncategorized

March 17, 2012

Ed Foster interview in Turkish Newspaper

Edward Foster: Over the years, Turkish writing has been an ongoing fascination 15 March 2012 / AYDOGAN VATANDAŞ, NEW YORK When “Summer’s End” by one of the most remarkable novelists in Turkey, Adalet Agaoğlu,...

Criticism / History / Intellectuals / Literature / Uncategorized

February 28, 2012

Joachim Sartorius on Peter Nadas

via signandsight: 27/02/2012 No one is indestructible Just as we are unable to coherently piece together parts of our own lives, it is impossible to neatly assemble the pieces of this formidable novel –...

Language / Literature / Obituaries / Passings

February 23, 2012

Barney Rosset (1922 – 2012)

from NYT obit: Barney Rosset, Trailblazing Publisher, Dies at 89 By JOHN WILLIAMS Barney Rosset, the legendary owner of Grove Press who fought legal battles to publish provocative writers, including Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett,...

Algeria / Literature / Maghrebi Literature

February 10, 2012

Rare 1956 TV Interview with Kateb Yacine on “Nedjma”

http://youtu.be/zHnpU74avvE For those who have French, a rare & special treat — what is probably the first tv interview Kateb Yacine ever gave to French television when Nedjma — the defining Maghrebi novel of the fifties —...

Literature / Obituaries / Translator

January 25, 2012

Carl Weissner (1940-2012)

We hadn’t met in a number of years, though we would talk on the phone once or twice yearly, me calling from wherever I was, Carl always from Mannheim. I had hopes that this...

Language / Literature

January 24, 2012

Language without a childhood

Via signandsight, this on the Turkish-born German-writing author Emine Sevgi Özdamar. You can read the full article here: A tribute to the writing of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, whose novels have made Berlin greater, more expansive,...

Art / Book Launch / Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Visual Arts

January 23, 2012

Just Published: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Selections

Happy to announce that the latest title in the Poets for the Millennium series has just been released: Ian Hamilton Finlay Selections, Edited and with an Introduction by Alec Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay (Author),...

Literature / Uncategorized / Video

December 27, 2011