the Literary Saloon
1,452 FOLLOWERS
Opinionated commentary on literary matters.
the Literary Saloon
2d ago
They've announced the shortlist for this year's €100,000 Dublin Literary Award -- six titles, with one of them a translation, Solenoid, by Mircea Cărtărescu.
The winner will be announced on 23 May ..read more
the Literary Saloon
2d ago
The New Literary Project has announced the finalists for this year's Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a: "$50,000 prize for a mid-career author of fiction". They are: Jamel Brinkley, Patricia Engel, Ben Fountain, Idra Novey, and Bennett Sims ..read more
the Literary Saloon
2d ago
They've announced the winners of this year's Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, "the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity". with Tremor, by Teju Cole, winning the fiction category, and Maxine Hong Kingston winning for lifetime achievement ..read more
the Literary Saloon
2d ago
Sad to hear that Marjorie Perloff has passed away; see, for example, Andrew Epstein's F*c*book post.
None of her books are under review at the complete review at this time, but I should be getting to her translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 (Liveright) and keep meaning to get to her memoir, The Vienna Paradox (New Directions ..read more
the Literary Saloon
2d ago
The 2024:1 issue of the Swedish Book Review is now available, with a variety of articles and reviews ..read more
the Literary Saloon
4d ago
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Matsumoto Seicho's 1959 novel, Point Zero, now out in English from Bitter Lemon Press ..read more
the Literary Saloon
4d ago
Michael Ondaatje has a new poetry collection out -- A Year of Last Things; see the Alfred A. Knopf publicity page -- and in the Toronto Star Deborah Dundas has a profile of him, A titan of Canadian literature is launching a much-anticipated new book. But his 'greatest achievement'? Being immortalized as a goblin spider ..read more
the Literary Saloon
4d ago
The German State Textile and Industry Museum in Augsburg opened an exhibit on Der textile Nachlass von Arno und Alice Schmidt -- basically, the clothes of Arno Schmidt and wife Alice -- on Friday; it runs through 13 October. See also Birgit Müller-Bardorff's report in the Augsburger Allgemeine, Stoffsammlung eines Literaten: Arno Schmidt im Textilmuseum.
Sounds ... interesting ..read more
the Literary Saloon
4d ago
At npr they discuss how Stephen King Has Ruled The Horror Genre For 50 Years. But Is It Art ..read more
the Literary Saloon
6d ago
Bulgarian author Alek Popov has passed away; see, for example, the Bulgarian News Agency report.
The only one of his books under review at the complete review is Mission London ..read more