However many books German writer and editor/publisher Jo Lendle has written, this evocative novel of the life and work of Alfred Wegener, known ultimately for helping develop theories of continental drift, is the first to be given to us in English (and done in masterful manner by Katy Derbyshire). To arrive at that juncture there …
As reported by Shelf Awareness November 14, a survey performed by The Digital Reader found 35 percent of almost 2,000 respondents had used their e-reader device only once. And, of that number, 25 percent said they preferred to read paper books. Also today, I received a package from Paris with an advance copy of Elfriede …
The last column I wrote for Northwest Book Lovers was a guide to discovering international literature, which is an interest of mine. Carrying that a little further, I recently interviewed German translator Katy Derbyshire, who I first met online when I was tracking down an excerpt of a yet-to-be-published book. I’m friends with her on Facebook …
There’s an opinion in publishing that literature in translation doesn’t sell— that the books are dense and unapproachable, and that Americans won’t read authors whose names we can’t pronounce. Norman Manea (The Lair, Yale Margellos) says books in translation are thought to be “too ‘complicated,’ which is another way of saying that literature should deal …
When I started as a publishers’ representative, buyers would tell me of the old days, when a rep would arrive in town on a train, rent a hotel suite and present to all of the area booksellers in one meeting. No one I knew ever actually sold that way or bought books that way, but …
