About amcorrea
Ana María Correa currently resides on the northern coast of Colombia and teaches at a bilingual school. In the fall of 2008, she will begin work on an MA in translation studies at a university in England.
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- The Institute for the Future of the Book announces a Public Conversation on….
- Stepanich on Wynton Marsalis’s Latest Book
- New Book by Bob Dylan
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It could be done. Bookscan would need ot agree to do it. The hassle is that that’s VNU/Neilsen, who might not want ot go to the bother, especially given the pissing and moaning that’ll happen over who’s indie, who isn’t....And I know that when I once leaked Bookscan data, they totally came after me.
But I’ll be safe here in the comments, so here’s a littlebit I can figure out, just don’t link to GalleyCat, OK?
Adult Hardcover General Fiction, one indie in the Top 50. Grove.
THE ENGLISH MAJOR 9780802118639 HARRISON JIM
Adult Paperback General Fiction, four:
THE GATHERING 9780802170392 ENRIGHT ANNE Grove
THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG 9781933372600 BARBERY MURIEL Europa
AN ARSONIST’S GUIDE TO WRITERS 9781565126145 CLARKE BROCK Algonquin
NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON 9780802143976 MERCIER PASCAL Grove
– Richard Nash
on “In Search of a True Indie Bestseller list”
Hi Jim - glad to hear from you! Be sure to read Greg’s follow up post too.
Bud
– Bud Parr
on “Stepanich on Wynton Marsalis's Latest Book”
Hi Bud--
I liked this post a lot. I have been getting into Miles’s later stuff lately and there is some great music there--easy to dismiss on grounds of jazz purity, but not on the grounds of its quality. I think you are dead on about Wynton: great live, not as good on record, and not a very compelling composer. He’s an emblem of that 80s group of musicians: great chops, but too worried about jazz history to add to it. Maybe their work was a necessary injection of swing back into jazz, but I have been startled at how good so much of the fusion I used to dismiss out of hand actually is. (I’ve been tutored by my bass teacher, a Berklee grad with very, very big musical ears.)
But I would say, anyone who loves music of any kind ought to see Wynton live. That’s where he really becomes the musician everyone hoped he would be.
Jim
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on “Stepanich on Wynton Marsalis's Latest Book”
This sounds like a question an indie publisher could answer.
– Carolyn
on “In Search of a True Indie Bestseller list”
please. can you make that happen? and then let me know about it.
– moonrat
on “In Search of a True Indie Bestseller list”
You can’t ask a father of three young children how long it took to read a 900 page book! 
But since you asked, about a month. It took me much longer to read Against the Day, so maybe that says something about Bolano’s ability to engage, but it’s also not a terribly complex novel despite its sweeping range.
My guess is that it wouldn’t have taken too long to translate - relatively speaking - because the language and phrasing doesn’t seem to me to be difficult and there doesn’t appear to me to be the layers of meaning you’d find in, say, the Quixote.
Thanks for the link (which I fixed) - The Ice Rink sounds Rashomon-like.
– Bud Parr
on “This is Not the End of Bolano”
(That is, if you type “html” after the last dot...)
I wonder how long it took Natasha Wimmer to translate 2666? How long did it take you to read it?
– amcorrea
on “This is Not the End of Bolano”
I’ve also heard that La pista de hielo (The Ice Rink) is going into translation to be published in the near future. (An informal review is embedded in the hyperlink of my name below.) I look forward to reading your thoughts on that massive tome soon.
– amcorrea
on “This is Not the End of Bolano”
You make a good point. In spite of the fact that I just bought one of Amazon’s Kindle things. I wrote a webblog post about it earlier today—the link to my webpage shows it. I live in Georgetown, and can walk within minutes to a number of independent bookstores. Ordering from Amazon is just laziness—bring it to my door because I am a lazy f**ker. Put me on your list and count me in.
– Donigan
on “August 6th, 2008: Boycott Amazon”
Sorry to see Heaney’s Beowulf included- there have been better translations of Beowulf in the last fifty years.
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on “Exercises in Listing: Translations of the past 50 Years”
On Deck +
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Notes & Links
“The ‘marketing’ crisis is a failure of capitalism, yet another example of its increasingly crude, bottom-line mentality, with the marketing of books now being outsourced to the writers themselves. Should we cheerfully give in to this?
- Dan Green (and be sure to catch the ever lively comments to Dan’s post)
“The fact is, most newspapers no longer come close to providing much of interest to reading enthusiasts, because they haven’t a clue as to what they are interested in. Reading litblogs would help, but I suspect the world they would encounter there would seem alien to them. After all, what kind of people would prefer reading Shakespeare to reading David Broder? Nevertheless, that global network of book lovers is only going to grow and strengthen. Whatever the future of publishing may be, it is a future that will be inextricably bound up with that network.”
– Frank Wilson
“One thing Frank said that really resonated was how dull movies and television have become since blogging has taken hold…The active nature of reading and sharing thoughts on same via the blog, plus the lively exchange of commentary, is so engaging it renders the experience of passively sitting in front of a box or big screen, flat, dull, dead, and plain boring in comparison.”
– Nigel Bealeed. I had the same thought last night as I relaxed by writing a blog post instead of watching a movie
“I have my doubts about the rest of the paper, but there are only a handful of arts sections in the world that can compete with this one.”
- Chad Post on the New York Sun
“One of the most important things that distinguish man from other animals is that man can get pleasure from drinking without being thirsty.”
“Part of the tension felt right now, perhaps, is that blogging and the internet have allowed for enthusiasm to encroach upon the terrain of criticism at a time when the arts landscape itself seems to be shrinking. Ebert (and Scott in his praise for him), however, provide a useful reminder that audiences perhaps gravitate most towards unique voices that are able to offer both enthusiasm and criticism rather than attempt to demarcate the boundaries between the two.”
“Paul Theroux is the kind of guy who travels to Malawi in a train and looks out the window and then writes about how the people outside all look very dumb and bored and unhappy and Malawi is an unhappy country… I think it’s utterly uninspiring, both as language and as perception… Günter Grass wrote a book about India, for example. I actually went through the book and counted how often he described shit. There are 289 mentions of shit in this small book. If you’re so obsessed with shit, there’s no need to go to India, just describe your own latrine—that would be just as representative of your neurosis. But if you are claiming to describe something out in the world, that’s another matter.”
- Ilija Trojanow quoted from Pen America 8 on the Pen America blog
“Ashbery – born in 1927 – has gone on writing his poems, and writing them faster than most of us can read them.”
- Stephen Burt in “John Ashbery, a poet for our times” Times Literary Supplement
“Baker pointed out that for every book he has written, he would generally get one third of the way into it before “something goes wrong.” Then, he sets it aside. But he had been working on a book-length history of the Library of Congress, dwelling in particular upon Archibald MacLeish, who was the Librarian of Congress in 1939. MacLeish would go onto become a key propaganda figure during the war. And thus Baker found himself immersed in “an interpretive problem.” He had to understand World War II. So he put aside this project and Human Smoke began to take shape.”
- Ed Champion on Nicholson Baker
“If you find Elbow’s music glum and depressing, you’re missing the point. Anyone who considers Elbow, Radiohead etc in any way miserable needs to spend some time finding the real beauty in this world of ours, for I fear that those folks are taking the whole thing on face value only. Let a little sadness into your lives and see how happy it can make you.”
- Simon Collison on Elbow’s “The Seldom Seen Kid”
“For instance, in the new shop, she’d like to offer tie-in products with books on certain subjects, i.e., yoga mats near the wellness shelf or wooden spoons near the cookbooks.”
- The New York Observer on Sarah McNally’s plans for a new bookstore on the Upper West Side
“Here’s my prediction though: Lots of people will watch this and think—hell, it’s not that hard to put together an internet show that’s at least this good. A bunch of different programs will suddenly come into existence, a few of which are actually quite good. Around the time that we find out that one of these new ones is 10 times more popular than Titlepage there will be a big media backlash against these “amateur” programmers, dismissing internet programs as “not the real thing.” A divisive spat will ensue mimicing the whole bloggers vs. print thing, and readers will be back where they started with nothing worth watching.”
“Most disturbingly, users are locked in, too: anybody using an iPhone, an old version of Windows, any version of Linux, or any other operating system or device not supported by Silverlight will be unable to use the Library of Congress’ new website. How is that compatible with the principles of democracy or librarianship? It’s taxation without web presentation.”
- Casey Durfee at LibraryThing on the LOC’s
via Three Percent
“It’s a great crib, no doubt, but ‘one of the most prominent critics of our time’ should surely be doing a lot more than writing a kind of student’s guide to the novel.”
– Mark Thwaite on James Wood’s How Fiction Works
“By the time I reached the ending…I could do nothing but breathlessly close the book and sit thinking…and thinking…
Dissertations could be written about this novel.”
- amcorrea on Steve Erickson’s Zeroville
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