the Literary Saloonopinionated commentary on literary mattersNYTBR farewell- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Roger Kimball announces that: Encounter Bids The New York York Times Farewell, as : Beginning today, June 23, 2008, Encounter Books will no longer send its books to The New York Times for review. Will it matterhttp://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fn1 The Discovery of Dawn review- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Walter Veltroni's The Discovery of Dawn. He's the mayor of Rome, his translator is Goedel, Escher, Bach-author Douglas R. Hofstadter.http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fn2 American translation prize- (Found July 2, 2008 ) James Thomas Snyder proposes: "a new prize, awarded to a foreign work published in the United States by an American translator". Would it helphttp://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fm4 Shakespeare and Co. Literary Festival report- (Found July 2, 2008 ) In The Telegraph J.S.Rafaeli reports on the Shakespeare and Co. Literary Festival -- and there are some reports at the official site as well.http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fm5 Coetzee and the censors- (Found July 2, 2008 ) At Granta Online Simon Willis reports on J.M. Coetzee and his censors.http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fm6 Nabokov Estate goes Wylie- (Found July 2, 2008 ) We missed this when it was first reported, but at The New York Observer Leon Neyfakh broke the news that Wylie Agency Adds Nabokov Estate To Its Client List.http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fm7 The French book market- (Found July 2, 2008 ) In Le Monde Alain Beuve-Mery reports on the relatively good health of the French book market -- and point out that half of the 'new' titles on the market are simply new editions of old ones.http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fn9 Arab literary criticism- (Found July 2, 2008 ) At Al-Ahram Weekly Rania Khallaf reports from a recent International Conference for Literary Criticism held in Cairo, in Whither Arab criticism -- though it didn't wind up being all that international.http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fn8 The Summer Book review- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Tove Jansson's classic The Summer Book.http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200806c.htm#fo8 Perec-related exhibit- (Found July 2, 2008 ) At the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Nantes they have an exhibit on "l'art contemporain de Georges Perec", Regarde de tous tes yeux, regarde.http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200807a.htm#fq1 |