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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
At Flavorwire Chelsea Bauch has a Q & A with Javier Marías (see, for example, the complete review review of his Dark Back of Time ). Among the interesting responses: What I can say is that translation is the best possible school for a writer. And speaking about Spanish literature (and how underappreciated it is in the US): Nowadays, our literature is very varied and some authors are really...
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A lot of you have been coming in looking for the Nobel Prize for Literature betting odds and leaving comments on last year’s competition – so we’ve decided to show you the odds available for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here are the betting odds available: Amos Oz 3/1 Herta Mu�ller 3/1 Joyce Carol Oates 5/1 Philip Roth 5/1 Thomas Pynchon 7/1 Adonis 9/1 Assia Djebar...
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Outside Counsel (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Nobel Prize handicapping. I think the IOC's rejection of Chicago reflects a deep seated anti-American sentiment, so sorry Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates (and Bob Dylan). If it hasn't happened for Amos Oz or Adonis I don't think it is going to happen this year either. I like Murakami, but I think he needs to build up a larger body of work. We've had Pinter (more evidence of animus to America) and...
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