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| Monday, May 23, 2011 10:43PM | | | | Book Expo America 2011, 05/23 | Tags: BEA, book exhibit, Italy, book fair
| | | First Day, Monday, May 23rd
After so much anticipation, some disappointment was expected. The REMAINDERS PAVILION: I had imagined a huge hall full of devilishly tempting books, all waiting to be bought at ridiculously low prices. The hall was big, all right, but the construction of the setting for the book exhibit was still going on, so there was a lot of unpleasant construction material around; there were some enticing books (by which I mean literary fiction, which is what I am mostly interested in) but most of the books on display were colorful travel guides... | | | | | | | Friday, May 20, 2011 1:01PM | | | | Reality & hunt for Osama | Tags: George W. Bush, pundits, non-fact-based reality, Tea Party Nation, Judson Phillips, Dan Balz, Washington Post, CIA, Taliban, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Andy Card, Fox News, vigilance, Gen. Richard Myers, FAIR, USA Today, Pentagon, BIn Laden Unit, Michael F. Scheuer, New York Times, Counterterrorism Center, Government Accountability Office, McClatchy, John Yoo, Karl Rove, American Enterprise Institute, National Security Council, Tommy Vietor, Glenn L. Carle, KSM, National Security Archive, perception management, news media
| | | | It’s touching how diligently pundits and politicians of the non-fact-based reality persuasion try to rewrite the record of George W. Bush. For example: Tea Party Nation head Judson Phillips “said that the death of Osama bin Laden happened in spite of President Obama.” (Right Wing Watch 5/2/11) “Bush’s persistence was palpable and set the tone for the intelligence community tasked with bringing bin Laden to justice. (Dan Balz, Washington Post 5/2/11)
To make such statements one must ignore the opportunity before 9/11. “The Bush administration now had in its hands what one participant called ‘the holy grail’ of a three-year quest by the U.S. government – a tool that could kill bin Laden within minutes of finding him. The CIA planned and practiced the operation. But... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:27AM | | | | Resonances | Tags: Muriel Barbery, George Packer, Salwa Al Neimi, Jose Manuel Prieto, Esther Allen, Baruch College, Cuore di Tenebra, Conrad, Libro del Te, Okakura Kakuzo, poeta tunisino del Quattrocento, eros, La Prova del Miele, Proust, Recherche, Rex, The Lemoine Affair, La Malora, Beppe Fenoglio
| | | Resonances: Writers on the Great Works. Tuesday, April 28
Muriel Barbery, George Packer, Salwa Al Neimi, Jose Manuel Prieto. Questi gli ospiti ai quali Esther Allen, che insegna qui, al Baruch College, ha chiesto di parlare del libro più importante della loro esperienza di lettori.
La scelta è caduta su questi scrittori (doveva esserci anche Antonio Tabucchi, l’unico che ho letto, ma putroppo ha dato forfait due... | | | | | | | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:56PM | | | | Reviewing Translations | Tags: cwp, miami book fair international
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Steve Wasserman—one of my all-time favorite panelists for his great anecdotes and brilliant, witty comments—moderated this discussion, which included Marie Arana (author, book review editor at the Washington Post), Alan Cheuse (author, critic for NPR), Eric Banks (editor of Bookforum), and Carlin Romano (book review editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer). In other words, a group of great reviewers and publications.
(Although I’m sure that someone in the blogosphere will mention how strange it is that no one from the NY Times was on this . . . In fact, to pour fuel on the fire, I want to point out that no one from the NY Times even attended the conference . . . )
This panel was a bit loose and strange, making... | | | | | | | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:53PM | | | | Boycotts, Bestsellers, and Banned B | Tags: cwp, miami book fair international
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This was the panel that I was on, which makes it sort of difficult to write about.
I do want to say that Michael Moore—the Chair of the PEN Translation Committee—did a fantastic job organizing and moderating this panel. He provided a lot of information about the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the recent attempt to block the publication of books from Cuba, Iran, and North Korea, and the PEN-instigated lawsuit to challenge this.
He also talked about the Tariq Ramadan situation. Ramadan was denied a visa to teach at Notre Dame, and as a result PEN and the ACLU have filed a lawsuit, arguing that
American citizens have a First Amendment right to hear his ideas.
Helene Atwan from Beacon Press... | | | | | | | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:45PM | | | | Three Days of Literary Translation | Tags: translation, Miami Book Fair, translators, publishing
| | | As I mentioned earlier, I was fortunate enough to attend both The Translation Market at the Miami Book Fair and the American Literary Translators Association Conference last week.
I promised to blog about both of these events for PEN America and for Three Percent, but because all three days were chock full of interesting events, great conversations, long nights of eating and laughing (and drinking), I wasn't able to do this concurrently with the conferences.
To make up for this, over the rest of today (and tomorrow), I'll recap all of the panels I attended and other related stories and events. In short, both conferences were amazing. (It totally helps that they both took place... | | | | | |
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