April 3, 2013
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Work / Life — An interview with the brilliant Louise Fili, designer and former art director of Pantheon Books, at The Great Discontent: Everybody wanted to use standard fonts, but I just wasn’t satisfied doing that. I didn’t realize this … Continue reading
May 23, 2012
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Krazy Kriticism — Sarah Boxer on George Herriman’s long-running newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat, at the LA Review of Books: [E]ven 95 years ago the truth was as loud and clear as a pair of clapping mitten rocks rising up … Continue reading
November 16, 2011
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Book Sniffing – Six writers on their book collecting habits, including Gary Shteyngart: I’m big on sniffing books. The old Soviet ones really have this strong smell, reminding me, for some reason, of tomato soup in a cheap Soviet cafeteria. Fear … Continue reading
November 3, 2011
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In an interview for the New Yorker, Haruki Murakami’s longtime translator Jay Rubin talks about the work of the Japanese author (whose new book 1Q84 has just been published) and his own work as a translator: New Yorker Outloud: Translating Murakami mp3 … Continue reading
September 23, 2011
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Peirene Press is small independent publisher in the UK specializing in previously untranslated contemporary European novellas. Their most recent series of books, designed by Sacha Davison Lunt, has been short-listed for the 2011 British Book Design and Production Awards in … Continue reading