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The Homecoming Party selected for the Indie Next List
Independent booksellers selected Carmine Abate's The Homecoming Party for the August 2010 Indie Next List. The monthly list of recommended books is a popular feature of IndieBound, an online community... -
Alina Bronsky novel nominated for the German Book Award
Congratulations to Alina Bronsky! Her most recent novel, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, has been long-listed for the 2010 German Book Award, Germany's equivalent of the Booker Prize. Europa... -
Caryl Férey in New York City
Caryl Férey will participate in a panel discussion on international noir with Paco Taibo, Hirsh Sawhney and Pete Hamill at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 12. The conversation... -
Words Without Borders publishes an excerpt from Carmine Abate's The Homecoming Party
After lunch, my grandmother always insisted we go take a nap. I would stretch out on the little bed with my eyes closed and as soon as her breathing slowed, I’d go downstairs and straight out the... -
An Interview with Alina Bronsky, author of Broken Glass Park
Preceding an NPR interview in front of a live audience taped for Chicago Amplified at the Goethe Institut in which host Susan Harris compares Broken Glass Park to The Catcher in the Rye, Margarita Korol... -
The Boston Bibliophile interviews Alina Bronsky, author of Broken Glass Park
The Boston Bibliophile recently published a review of Broken Glass Park. The literary blog is now releasing an interview with the author of the novel, Alina Bronsky. Can you tell us a little about... -
An Interview with Jenn Ashworth, author of A Kind of Intimacy
Mostly Fiction's Interview with Jenn Ashworth, author of A Kind of Intimacy MF: Please describe A KIND OF INTIMACY for our readers. JENN ASHWORTH: It's a dark, funny novel set in a miserable little... -
A Tiny Bookstore Making Big Waves
The Good Novel, a tiny bookstore that opened in 2004 in the Odéon neighborhood of Paris has brought tempers to a boil and thrown down the gauntlet to the entire French publishing industry. The... -
Elle- Lit Life: "Jenn Ashworth on the Dangers of Little Girls"
from Elle interview with Nojan Aminosharei "I was around sixteen when a friend gave me Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, and I've read it for inspiration once or twice a year ever since. The way... -
The Huffington Post: "Kindness and its Evil Twin"
The Companion by Lorcan Roche is a book about kindness, and its occasional evil twin, anger. Let me explain. Kindness is our greatest tool against the inequities of life. When we are kind to strangers...