Essay Sylvia Petter recalls Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker, who passed away June 4, not long after the book-themed TV series ÜBER featured her in its first episode. Friederike Mayröcker passed away on June 4, 2021, in Vienna, aged ninety-six. She was farewelled to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” and was laid to rest on June 17 in a grave of honor at the Central Cemetery beside her partner of many years, the poet Ernst Jandl, who died in 2000. I was fortunate to meet Mayröcker, albeit in a roundabout way. I was involved with editing an anthology of prose, poetry, and artwork called New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan to raise money for the Japanese Red Cross following the Fukushima earthquake in 2011. I had gone to the Literaturhaus to see Marion Steinfellner, a Viennese poet and Butoh dancer. When I mentioned the anthology, she immediately said that Mayröcker had written a poem mentioning Japanese cats that might fit the anthology, and that I needed to meet her confidante, Christel Fallenstein, who would be able to guide me. Christel Fallenstein was very helpful; Mayröcker agreed to participate and donated the poem, but it had to be rendered in English. The translator Liselotte Pope-Hofmann, who had already translated some of Mayröcker’s work, agreed to translate the poem, the pertinent parts of which are: . . . while the Japanese cats namely the cats are weeping actually waving: wailing you know nothing... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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They turned down Ulysses and Animal Farm, but still shaped 20th‑century literatureAll publishing houses have archives, but for anyone interested in 20th-century literature the archive of Faber & Faber is a fabled treasure house. This is the firm that was, as Toby Faber puts it, “midwife at... Continue reading at The Guardian
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An indie publisher has been forced to find a new venue to launch its anti-Brexit poetry anthology Bollocks to Brexit: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction after the church where it was due to be held refused to host the event, citing issues with political balance. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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After cease and desist letter issued for portraying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez like DC’s Wonder Woman, indie Devil’s Due pastiches another characterAfter getting into hot water with DC Comics for an issue in which congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez looked a little too much like DC’s Wonder... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Authors will tour independent bookshops, illustrators will create special shop windows and limited edition and early book releases will take place to celebrate this year’s Independent Bookshop Week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Intan Paramaditha will be appearing alongside Syd Moore to discuss re-writing old stories and myths with a contemporary, feminist slant at the Essex Book Festival on 15 March 2019 at 19.00. Find out more and book tickets here. What’s exciting about Indonesian literature at the moment, and... Continue reading at British Council global
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Bloomsbury is publishing The Hollow of the Hand, the first poetry collection from musician P J Harvey, in collaboration with photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy. The title will be released in four different editions simultaneously on 8th October: a limited edition with original artwork for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A limited edition of Chang-Rae Lee's On Such A Full Sea turns typography into a sculpture.It was only a matter of time: the first 3-D printed book cover has arrived. Published by Riverhead Books on Tuesday, a limited edition of Chang-Rae Lee's novel On Such a Full Sea features a white slipcover... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Vintage Classics and Bentley Motors have teamed up to produce a limited edition of Ian Fleming... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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