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Dispatches from the Brooklyn Book Festival: Literature in a Digital Age
“When I turned in a book in the ‘50s, my job was done. Now it’s just beginning.” -John Updike The panel “Literature In a Digital Age” at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival brought together Granta Editor John Freeman (The Tyranny of Email), New York Times Book Critic Dwight Garner (Read Me), and Sarah Schmelling... »
Lost in Translation
This will be the first entry in a series on The Festival of French Writing: French and American Authors in Conversation, taking place February 26-28 in New York City. Friday’s 3:15 session was a conversation between Abdouraham Waberi and Philip Gourevitch, moderated by Lila Azam Zangeneh. Their topic of conversation was one that is close to my heart: why so few French novels... »