Dec 11, 2012 · Comedy, a darkly humorous tale that earned Keilson comparisons to Franz Kafka, is about a Dutch couple who hide a Jew in their house, only to have him die under their roof, causing all sorts of problems (namely, how do they dispose of the body without the Nazis discovering they were hiding it). Death, on the other hand, is an even stranger ...

Leppin, immediately recognizable in his large hats and loud ties, captivated listeners, among them Max Brod and Franz Kafka, with readings from his fiction and poetry at the Café Arco. Unfortunately, however, he could not tear himself away from Prague.

May 13, 2009 · The spread of Bolañomania last year, after the release of 2666, was amazing to witness. I never thought I’d see a complex and disturbing nine-hundred-page novel, translated from Spanish and written by an author who passed away a few years ago, show up on the New York Times best-seller list.

Vince Passaro on Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. Bruce Bawer on Guy Davenport (1927–2005) ...

May 7, 2019 · Recode’s Peter Kafka reports that Amazon is considering paying online publishers that use affiliate links, like BuzzFeed and the New York Times’s Wirecutter. G/O Media, formerly Gizmodo Media, has hired Paul Maidment as editor in chief.

Oct 8, 2013 · Tonight’s event will have Christopher Sorrentino and Andrew Hultkrans considering Richard Nixon on his centenary, Cathy Park Hong and Nelly Reifler imagining futuristic surveillance, and Mary Jo Bang and Timothy Donnelly reporting on reading Kafka's Amerika. A scrappy little lab at Columbia is looking at book piracy. The organization, piracy ...

The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. Robert Glück on Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker, edited by Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper, and Rip-off Red, Girl Detective, and The Burning Bombing of America, by Kathy Acker

Jul 16, 2018 · Marlon James pays homage to Franz Ross’s 1974 novel, Oreo. Ron Charles wishes that writers who have received negative reviews would talk back to their critics more often. “I wish more authors were willing to respond in public to reviews of their books.

Jan 30, 2020 · At Recode, Peter Kafka reflects on BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith’s move to the New York Times. The Reading Women podcast talks to Tishani Doshi about India, universal stories, and her new novel, Small Days and Nights. “I’m glad that it has had the potential to travel because part of the reason, or part of the motivation, of the story itself ...

And then there’s the other kind, a sort of blank allegory, like Kafka’s The Castle or Saramago’s Blindness, in which neither the reader nor, perhaps, the author is very clear about what the story is about. If you accept this distinction, where do you think your novel falls between those two types—if we call the former explicit allegory ...