Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Hope What's the use of something as unstable and diffuse as hope -- the almost-twin of making-do, the isotope of going on: what isn't in the envelope just before it isn't: the always tabled righting of the present. -- From "Elephant Rocks" by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone By Sasa Stanisic; translated by Anthea Bell Grove Press; 345 pages; $24 "A good story," writes Sasa Stanisic in his first novel, "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone," "is like our river Drina: never calm, it doesn't...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Although I am sure That he will not be coming, In the evening light When the locusts shrilly callI go to the door and wait. Anonymous, from the 10th-century Kokinshu poetry anthology. Translated by Donald Keene in "Anthology of Japanese Literature" (Grove Press) Read the full story
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
The Rebels' Hour By Lieve Joris, translated by Liz Waters Grove Press; 299 pages; $24 The piece of literary reportage Americans may be most familiar with is Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood." Today, some critics believe Capote was too cavalier with the facts...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Fiction - hardcover; Grove Press; 336 pages; 2007. Australian author Richard Flanagan's latest novel, The Unknown Terrorist, is dedicated to David Hicks, the Australian-born Taleban fighter captured by US forces in Afghanistan in November 2001. Hicks was detained by the US Government in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp for more than five years, before he was tried and convicted of supporting terrorism...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Fiction - paperback; Grove Press; 425 pages; 1997. I seem to be on a roll with Australian books. This one, my third in a matter of weeks, is by Richard Flanagan, who first came to international prominence with Gould's Book of Fish, which I read several years ago and loved very much. The book went on to win the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2002. Prior to this Flanagan had written two other novels:...
notcoming.com | Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
SXSW coverage – Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset did very well to resist conservatism, but he is no activist although history may suggest otherwise. In Obscene , he is established as a defender of freedom of speech, but Rosset is also a man with an apprehensive interest in Victorian pornography—he has published, he admits, what arouses him.
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Here’s a cautionary tale about using stock photography. Grove Press loved the cover of the German edition of Sasa Stanisic's first novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, so they used it for the U.S. edition, too. There was a surprise in store. From New York Times reporter Dwight Garner’s blog, Papercuts: Grove did all this without [...]
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
One Soldier's War. By Arkady Babchenko. (Translated from Russian by Nick Allen) Grove Press. 432 pages. $25. Pre-publication trade reviews and jacket blurbs compared Arkady Babchenko's horrific memoir of his tours of duty in t...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
by Pascal Mercier translated from German by Barbara Harshav Grove Press, 438 pp., $25 What would it take for you to suddenly abandon your decades-
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
by Pascal Mercier translated from German by Barbara Harshav Grove Press, 438 pp., $25 What would it take for you to suddenly abandon your decades-
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
by Pascal Mercier translated from German by Barbara Harshav Grove Press, 438 pp., $25 What would it take for you to suddenly abandon your decades-
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
The Flowers by Dagoberto Gilb Grove Press 250 pages, $24 With his new novel The Flowers, Austin-based Dagoberto Gilb has written his most powerful book to date, digging his hands into the fraught subject of race relations, but doing so in his signature humorous, meandering, natural way that makes him such a winning chronicler of Western urban life. Although Gilb's story alights on all kinds of touchy...
Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A. (Free subscription) | 11/18/2007
of Confession today at church: Lord of Life, we come to the time of Thanksgiving when for generations the harvest was "safely gathered in ere the winter storms begin." As the north winds blow, we are reminded of our mortality, and of our dependence on one another for blessings beyond our deserving. Teach us also to feel responsible especially to those who have not been so blessed. For it is the
Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A. (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
Happy Statehood Centennial to all my Okie kith and kin! --ER
