I hope to have a review posted for Sergio Chejfec’s The Planets within the next day or so. In the meantime, here’s a round-up of the items that caught my eye last week.
- Levi Asher discusses Why Reading Is Always Social over on LitKicks.
- The NYRB Blog has this post by Tim Parks entitled Most Favored Nations, and this older post The Dull New Global Novel about the homogenization of International Literature.
- A breakdown of the upcoming Gatsby film – The Great Gatsby Trailer… Deglitzed – by The Picky Girl
- This post at The Three Percent that (in a way) answers my question about the READ RUSSIA! anthology put out by Overlook Press at BEA. The Russia Library Initiative: For Better or Worse . I first learned that Overlook has made an arrangement to publish 125 Russian translations over the next decade from the Three Percent’s Weekly Podcast… but the blog goes into more depth.
- I also learned about The Walk by Robert Walser on another podcast – Episode 3 of That Other Word from The Center for the Art of Translation. It’s a beautiful New Directions Pearl Edition (all of which I love & covet).
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Hubs is going to be SO HAPPY about the Russia Library Initiative. I can’t wait to tell him. He’s nuts about Russian literature.
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It’s kind of crazy though. 25 books a year. Don’t get me wrong – I’m very excited about it… but that’s a hella’ lot of Russian, Comrade.
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I am not a Russian lit lover myself, as is evidenced by my complete lack of excitement for the new Anna Karenina film.
Thank you thank you for the link to The Great Gatsby post! The Asher post is fantastic.
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I didn’t know there was a new Anna Karenina film… of course, I’ve never read the book. The post on Three Percent actually addresses how whenever English thinks of Russian lit they immediately go to the classics. He argues that those are a part of Russian literature, but not contemporary Russian literature.
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