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Slowing Down…
Though there’s some news today in Horace Engdahl stepping down as the head of the Nobel Prize’s literature committee (why can’t American commenters get as excited about this as the S… more →
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes
Bob Dylan's Nobel odds rise, but not his chances
wrote 8 months ago: A flurry of hefty bets has made the singer second favourite for the literature prize, but experts co … more →
Overhyping Cultural Products: Nothing New!
wrote 9 months ago: I’ve never been too crazy about “book jacket hype”… you know statements about how good the boo … more →
No American has Received the Nobel Prize for Literature since 1993. Why Not?
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wrote 1 year ago: Alexander Nazaryan is a writer and teacher living in Brooklyn. He is writing a novel about Russian i … more →
Philip Roth wint Nobelprijs Literatuur
wrote 1 year ago: Afgelopen donderdag heeft het Nobelcomité de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur toegekend aan de Amerikaa … more →
Borges on national literatures
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wrote 3 years ago: The Paris Review Interviews Vols. I – IV keep giving. In volume I, Borges says in a 1967 interview, … more →
2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
wrote 3 years ago: Yes, it’s that time again. The odds for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature are officially up. … more →
Horace, my man!
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wrote 4 years ago: P1-morgon. Svenska Akademiens ständige sekreterare Horace Engdahl ska kommentera valet av nobelpri … more →
Horace, my man!
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wrote 4 years ago: P1-morgon. Svenska Akademiens ständige sekreterare Horace Engdahl ska kommentera valet av nobelpri … more →
Horace and the paperback
wrote 4 years ago: I read my previously mentioned house magazine over lunch, and it wasn’t so much inspiration, a … more →
Not Mere Coincidence
wrote 4 years ago: The New York Times notes that Swedish Academy secretary Horace Engdahl will step down in June. … more →
Kyle Semmel Talks Translations
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wrote 4 years ago: Kyle Semmel’s work as publications & communications manager of The Writer’s Center i … more →
Slowing Down...
wrote 4 years ago: Though there’s some news today in Horace Engdahl stepping down as the head of the Nobel Prize … more →
Links: International Anthem
wrote 4 years ago: “Roberto Bolaño‘s 2666 may be the Great American Novel.” Well, can’t blame a … more →
Links: Don't Quote Me
wrote 4 years ago: Per Wästberg, chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, spoke at Harvard last week, playing it bo … more →
Links: Selling Points
wrote 4 years ago: A Cape Cod home that was once owned by John Dos Passos and regularly played host to parties featurin … more →
The Irrelevance of the Nobel Prize in Literature
wrote 4 years ago: Whose writing has been more widely read? Whose writings have had a greater beneficial effect on peop … more →
Burning Trousers
wrote 4 years ago: A Google-news sweep reveals that first reaction in America is that the Nobel committee, in line with … more →
Nobel Leak Suspected
wrote 4 years ago: A large number of bets on this year’s Nobel prize winner is causing the award jury to suspect … more →
Nobel Prize Shocker: America Fails to Win Literature Award
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wrote 4 years ago: The 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to a non-American—a Frenchman, in fact: Jean-Marie Gust … more →
