The Festival des Ecrivains du Monde, a celebration of world literature, began in Paris Friday September 20, continued through the weekend and carried over for two days in Lyon where it ends today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Favorites among year's six Booker Prize finalists — which "shows the English language novel to be a form of world literature" — are Jim Crace and Eleanor Catton. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Idlewild, an independent travel bookstore in Manhattan, has rebranded itself to put real tickets in the hands of its customers. Considering the ear-splitting bedlam you’ll find there, it’s hard to believe that the sprawling concrete grotesquerie of New York’s JFK Airport was originally named... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]