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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
Horace and the paperback
bookwitch wrote 6 months ago: I read my previously mentioned house magazine over lunch, and it wasn’t so much inspiration, a … more →
Kyle Semmel Talks Translations
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artandliterature wrote 6 months ago: Kyle Semmel’s work as publications & communications manager of The Writer’s Center … more →
Slowing Down...
Mark Athitakis wrote 6 months ago: Though there’s some news today in Horace Engdahl stepping down as the head of the Nobel Prize … more →
Links: International Anthem
Mark Athitakis wrote 8 months ago: “Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 may be the Great American Novel.” Well, can’t blame a … more →
Links: Don't Quote Me
Mark Athitakis wrote 8 months ago: Per Wästberg, chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, spoke at Harvard last week, playing it bo … more →
Links: Selling Points
Mark Athitakis wrote 9 months 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
Mike Gibson wrote 9 months ago: Whose writing has been more widely read? Whose writings have had a greater beneficial effect on peop … more →
Nobel Leak Suspected
Thomas Patrick Levy wrote 9 months 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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abbeville wrote 9 months ago: The 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to a non-American—a Frenchman, in fact: Jean-Marie Gu … more →
Links: Foot Traffic
Mark Athitakis wrote 9 months ago: The New York Times has a sad obituary for Charles Wright, who wrote three novels about black street … more →
Cheat Code
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ed biblioklept wrote 9 months ago: Motoko Rich’s article “The Future of Reading,” published in today’s New Yor … more →
No Nobels for American writers
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Ryan Michael Williams wrote 9 months ago: For the past several days, some provocative statements by Swedish Academy permanent secretary Horace … more →
Kundera, Horace Engdahl, and the Nobel Prize
Jake Seliger wrote 9 months ago: Swedish Academy Permanent Secretary Horace Engdahl ought to read Milan Kundera, who is as European c … more →
I blame the french
douglasandmain wrote 9 months ago: U.S. writers are ignored for the Nobel Prize for Literature. The head of the committee makes a pin h … more →
Engdahl-gate: One More View
Mark Athitakis wrote 9 months ago: I’d promised myself I’d lay off the whole Americans-are-too-insular thing—plenty h … more →
From the Horace's arse: U.S. lit sucks
Michael Steven Gregory wrote 9 months ago: The last American writer to win a Nobel Prize for literature was Toni Morrison, in 1993. Why has it … more →
Abbeville vs. Chicago: "Effete"
abbeville wrote 9 months ago: Oh, man. Some style manuals just weren’t meant to be arbiters of style. Thumbing through the … more →
Links: Engdahl-gate
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Mark Athitakis wrote 9 months ago: Here’s video of Nobel Prize literature judge Horace Engdahl responding to a question about wha … more →
Of Literary Value; Continental Consideration
Nathaniel wrote 9 months ago: While primarily I would like to use this blog to discuss specific books that I am either reading, ha … more →
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