Trevor Berrett Today (a day early) the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist was announced. I love this time of year! Below is the list, which includes the UK covers and blurbs from the UK publishers, this being a UK publication prize. I’ve read three of the fifteen titles (thought two of the three were excellent) and, where applicable, have … Read more
The newly branded Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize and then, for one year, the Women’s Prize) longlist was just announced. The shortlist will be announced on April 7, and the winner (who gets a check for £30,0000) on June 4. Here are the titles, along with their UK covers (soon) (this … Read more
Tonight they announced that Tenth of December, by George Saunders, has won this years Story Prize (click here for the official post at The Story Prize website). I have read most of the stories in Tenth of December, and I liked maybe half of them. The rest felt like he was relying on a formula, … Read more
Trevor and Betsy begin their trek through Alice Munro’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You with the first story, “Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You.”
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Yiyun Li’s “A Sheltered Woman” was originally published in the March 10, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. Trevor When I first started reading Yiyun Li’s work, I wasn’t quite sure what to make … Read more
Trevor reviews Ingmar Bergman’s masterful film, Winter Light, about a priest who has lost his faith and wonders how to face the cold world. Read the full post.
David and Trevor are back with Eclipse Viewer 12: Lubitsch Musicals. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.
Trevor and Betsy embark on a story-by-story analysis of Alice Munro’s third book, Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You. This post contains an introduction as well as links to each piece they’ve covered.
A couple of years ago, Open Letter Books published Dubravka Ugresic’s Karaoke Culture, a collection of essays examining culture from a wide variety of perspectives. Deservedly, that book went on to become a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. We now have the great fortune of a new book of Ugresic’s essays: Europe … Read more
