What Makes for Effective Publisher Branding?
By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story by Erin Cox urges publishers to pour effort and resources into branding themselves, essentially making their colophons and imprints ...
View ArticleInvite Recap: Will I See You On the Party Circuit at BEA?
By Erin L. Cox On May 5th, I wrote a blog post shamelessly asking for Book Expo America party invites. I have been asked for some ...
View ArticleFiction Longlist Announced for 2011 Best Translated Book Awards
By Hannah Johnson Now in its fifth year, the Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA) fiction longlist highlights 25 translated works of literature published in the ...
View ArticleReading the Age of Screens, Continued
By Hannah Johnson Publishing Perspectives contributor and publisher of Open Letter Press, Chad W. Post, wrote a piece called “Reading in the Age of Screens” ...
View ArticleMathias Énard’s Zone: Brilliance in a Single 517 Page Sentence
By Dennis Abrams It really shouldn’t work at all — Matias Énard’s Zone. This novel, the story of Francis Servain Mirkovic, fighter in the Balkan ...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award Finalists: A Showcase of Indie Press Excellence
By Ed Nawotka Chad Post, frequent contributor and friend to Publishing Perspectives, has announced the finalists for the third year of the Best Translated Book ...
View Article2011 Best Translated Book Award Winners Announced
Poetry: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry Fiction: Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver translated from the Swedish by ...
View ArticleJuan José Saer’s ‘Scars’ is a Beautiful, Dark Lesson in Humility
Scars is a beautifully-structured lesson in humility and perspective, accented with sparkling, if dark, humor.
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award 2013 Fiction Longlist Announced
The fiction longlist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards, organized by Open Letter Books, includes 23 books from 15 publishers, representing 19 countries and 13 languages.
View ArticleWhich is the US’s Most Prolific Literary Translation House?
In 2012 AmazonCrossing published more works of fiction and poetry in translation in the US than any other press except for Dalkey Archive, and is tops so far this year.
View ArticleYou Too Can Start Your Own Translation Publishing House
Will Evans on the of his Dallas-based publishing house, Deep Vellum Press, and his intention to turn American readers into a community of translation lovers. The post You Too Can Start Your Own...
View ArticleAre We Publishing Too Many Literary Translations?
Alex Zucker, translator and co-chair of the Translation Committee at PEN, wonders whether more focus on fewer translations would help the books sell better. The post Are We Publishing Too Many Literary...
View ArticleChad Post Named 2018 Ottaway Honoree in International Literature
At its fundraising gala this autumn, the nonprofit organization behind the magazine 'Words Without Borders' will honor the University of Rochester's Chad Post for his longtime leadership in the...
View ArticleOttaway Winner: Chad Post on Translation’s ‘Expanding Audience’
'We're all taxed resource-wise,' says Chad W. Post. But as he receives the Ottaway Award, he says he's optimistic about the state of literature in translation. The post Ottaway Winner: Chad Post on...
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