Re: Are Euro Publishers Really All That? - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

helendewitt — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:13:21 -0000

Whenever I go to Paris I'm dazzled by the range of writers from the Arab world available in translation; it's also wonderful to see bilingual editions of various classical Arabic texts in affordable paperbacks for the general reader. In Berlin I've seen a lot of translations of writers from Eastern Europe. I don't know whether more books really are translated, though - it may be that bookstores here are simply happier to stock translations.

Re: writers and the underground

helendewitt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:46:14 -0000

Well, presumably the great thing about the Internet is that you have access to radical writers even if the only place selling books locally is B&N or, for that matter, WalMart. And radical writers with no money can reach an audience without the overheads of print. www.metamute.org. http://k-punk.abstractdynam... (Not sure Owen Hatherley of nastybrutalistandshort.blog... or Infinite Thought of http://www.cinestatic.com/i... would count as underground by your definition, b/c they've published in a wide range of journals, but the kind of thing they write probably wouldn't get picked up by a mainstream publisher and placed with B&N.)

(Actually I think Metamute does produce a physical magazine, come to think of it, but more readers probably know it through the website.)

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