Nov 25 2018: The Washington Post reports on why translated literature is gaining ground in the USA:
In the two disharmonious decades of the 21st century, American society has grown less homogeneous and more interactive. Americans have expanded their engagement with other cultures...
Nov 20 2018: Esi Edugyan was announced as the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Washington Black during a televised awards banquet Monday night at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto. The Giller is considered Canada's most prestigious literary prize.
Edugyan ...
Nov 18 2018: The Oxford Word of the Year 2018 is… toxic.
The adjective toxic is defined as 'poisonous' and first appeared in English in the mid-seventeenth century from the medieval Latin toxicus, meaning 'poisoned' or 'imbued with poison'...
The Oxford Word of the Year is a ...
Nov 18 2018: The Washington Post looks at First Lady memoirs past and present, starting with Julia Grant:
When former first lady Julia Grant finished her memoir in 1899, with the help of one Mark Twain, she couldn’t find a publisher for it.
"My book, on which I have built so ...
Nov 15 2018: The 2018 National Book Award Winners have been announced. See them all on BookBrowse including the first winner of the new Translated Literature category.
Nov 14 2018: ‘The two things I love most are novels and birds, and they’re both in trouble,’ says The Corrections author, one of the world’s most famous birdwatchers, in an extensive interview in The Guardian
Nov 13 2018: With less than 10 days to go until Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday shopping season, independent bookstores around the country are finalizing their plans for the sixth annual Indies First celebration. Held every year on Small Business Saturday, the day after ...
Nov 13 2018: Amazon confirmed Tuesday morning that it has chosen sites in New York City and Northern Virginia as the locations for its new headquarters. As previously reported, the New York City office will be located in the Long Island City neighborhood in Queens. The Northern ...
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