the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
After all the 'Herta-who-?' reactions when Herta Müller took the Nobel Prize this year it's good to see, for example, Richard Woodward take a stab at Discovering Herta Müller in the Wall Street Journal . After working his way through several of her books, his reaction is decidedly mixed: I am happy to have made Ms. Müller's acquaintance without being eager to revisit...
Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
So our first Herta Mueller books came in, a reprint of The Land of Green Plums from Northwestern University Press. We kept a list of interested parties and one of them was our good friend Brian, ex-Brookfield Schwartz bookseller, and now of Half-Price Books. The funny thing for me was that we have another customer that shares Brian's last name and I thought it was for him. For some reason,...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... Carl Hanser Verlag, which publishes the work of this year's Nobel laureate, German-Romanian writer Herta Mueller. ('Modest' must be a very, very relative term if it includes Hanser .....) But among the interesting statistics on offer: Just 65,000 e-books sold in Germany in the first half of the year, according to market research firm GfK Group. Meanwhile, the American price wars only...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... authors that are important in other places but get no traction whatsoever in the U.S. (Herta Mueller, anyone?) and address some of the cultural gap that definitely exists, Liesl Schillinger et al. aside .
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... Borders also has a discussion of The Salt Smugglers and a fresh translation of work from Nobelist Herta Mueller.
