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3% quicklinks to the English portal to Czech Lit (not chick-lit ... well, could be ...)

Re: Political Correctness so says one of the Nabokv-l stalwarts: Russian stories for our time - The Globe and Mail (also should mention that, among Krzhizhanovsky's stories in BTBA longlister Memories of the Future, the one I found most compelling was "The Bookmark" ...)

A new, updated take on new Lithuanian prose: Eurozine - Literary perspectives: Lithuania - Almantas Samalavicius Almost normal

The 2010 Tournament of Books by ToB Staff - The Morning News The 2010 Tournament of Books Shortlist

sumpinnew Still literature of the mountain south (via wood_s_lot)

I haven't mentioned being a bit disappointed by Tsepeneag's Pigeon Post. (Somebody over at TLS thought it better than Vain Art of the Fugue, I think it's the other way round.) Nor did I mention being blown away by Eliade's The Old Man and the Bureaucrats. Wow.

via bookforumblog, a special issue: Jacques Ranci?re on the Shores of Queer Theory b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal

via Scott Esposito, Natasha Wimmer on Merc? Rodoreda: Print: A Domestic Existentialist: On Mercè Rodoreda (as to Goytisolo, I haven't hit the trilogy, but The Marx Family Saga and The Garden of Secrets were excellent, Makbara less so ...)

The Letter as Literature's Political and Poetic Body by Tawada Yoko, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky The problems of reading within and between writing systems; via bookforumblog: http://www.japanfocus.org/-Tawada-Yoko/3208

Latest LRB has Amit Chaudhuri on Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil (not online alas), with a long preamble on the state of Pakistani literature; some of the flavor of it, trying to stay within the bounds of fair use

Re: Political Correctness Maximilian Voloshin, "The Poet's House" (via)

Over here in the States, April is National Poetry Month (or NaPoMo, whatever the postmodernists may say). Strangely, the top googlenewshit on it is Canadian. But 'tis worth celebrating, even if it does get cheesey at times.

Poet, novelist, essayist, critic, translator ... so opens the bookjacket backblurb on my copy of Collected Poems (Doubleday '58, '61). I won't rehash here the bioverviews provided at the Trust Society, kirjasto or wiki. I've been prompted to open this thread upon completing The White Goddess...

Alma Books (via Literary Saloon, via BlogSpy) informs that Barbara Wright is no longer with us: Regarding her first (and its first) translation of Exercises in Style: That her last words should be a revised edition of Exercises in Style (how many revisions? 99?) is a fitting conclusion to a...

Book Review of Yiyun Li's The Vagrants and Two More Chinese Novels | Open Letters Monthly: An Arts and Literature Review the other two being Feathered Serpent by Xu Xiaobin & The Moon Opera by Bi Feiyu