In their summer-guide, The Village Voice goes through the always entertaining exercise of having Our Favorite Writers Pick Their Favorite Obscure Books. They also look at Summer Fiction in Translation -- but find only four titles.
At Slate Jessica Winter continues her look at literary procrastination, focussing, in "It's All in My Head", on varieties of authorial procrastination.
First no one notices that the Palestine Literature Festival and the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem overlapped, and now the Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni reportedly said that he "would burn Israeli books himself if found in Egyptian libraries."
Signandsight.com offer their useful seasonal feature, here presenting: "the most talked about books of the 2008 spring season" (in Germany -- which includes books translated into German).
Joseph V. Tirella's Portfolio story really is titled: The Suite Smell of Success, but at least they offer some hard numbers in discussing Irene Nemirovsky career-boost in the wake of the success of Suite Francaise.
