Third Day: Wednesday, 05/25

It turned out that, indeed, there was another area of the exhibit that had more publishers of literary fiction than the area I’d previously visited.  By the end of the day I had a bag full of so many goodies I had to ship them home.  First, I stopped (again) by Europa Editions’s table because I’d been told that they would give books away.  I had the unexpected luck of meeting the publisher himself, Kent Caroll, who let me choose two novels.  I picked The...

Writers & Their Aliases

“Using a pseudonym without being forced by political circumstances is narcissism”—this was the provocative statement with which the moderator, Arnon Grunberg—who writes under both his name and a pseudonym—opened the session, inviting the panelists to respond.

Bernardo Atxaga took a very oblique way of answering, by giving us a history of the name of the Basque region where he was born.  He...