Open Letter searches for international literature that is extraordinary and influential, works that we hope will become the classics of tomorrow.
Information
- Founded:
- 2007
Photos
2 of 3 albumsSee All
Fall/Winter 2009Created about 4 months ago
Spring/Summer 2009Created about 4 months ago
Events
10 past eventsSee All
- Reading the World: Four Intern...
Gowen Room, Wilson Commons
Thursday, November 5 at 6:00pm - Reading the World Conversation...
Plutzik Library (in Rush Rhees Libr...
Tuesday, October 20 at 6:30pm - Reading the World Conversation...
Sloan Auditorium (in Goergen Hall)
Tuesday, October 6 at 5:00pm - Dubravka Ugresic w/ Brigid Hughes
Melville House Bookstore
Tuesday, October 14 at 7:00pm - Bragi Olafsson w/ Dubravka Ugr...
McNally Jackson
Wednesday, October 8 at 7:00pm - Dubravka Ugresic Conversation
TBA
Wednesday, October 1 at 6:00pm - Dubravka Ugresic Reading
57th Street Books
Tuesday, September 30 at 6:00pm - Dubravka Ugresic Reading
Harvard Book Store
Wednesday, September 24 at 7:00pm - Dubravka Ugresic w/ Bryten Bry...
92nd St. Y
Tuesday, September 23 at 7:00pm - Dubravka Ugresic at the Univer...
University of Rochester
Tuesday, September 16 at 7:00pm
Open Letter Books Our new 2010 catalog is out now. At the link, you can read all about the new books and even download it to get extra info and read advance excerpts.
www.rochester.edu
Only seems appropriate that just before Christmas we should announce our summer list of titles . . . You can click here to download a pdf version of the new catalog (which contains excerpts from all the ...
Open Letter Books Bill Marx on The Golden Calf: "Its charmingly jaundiced view of avariciousness is worthy of David Mamet and Ben Jonson."
www.theworld.org
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Three: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell: the final volume in Javier Marías's trio of spy novels extraordinaire is part of World Book's idiosyncratic round-up of first-rate international literary stocking stuffers.
Open Letter Books Want to know the what Open Letter does? The University of Rochester recently helped make a 5 minute video about just that. It's a nice overview of what/why we publish, Three Percent, and the programing at UR.
www.youtube.com
An innovative foreign book translation and publishing service at the University of Rochester. The program is the brain child of Chad Post.
Open Letter Books SEASON OF ASH by Jorge Volpi tops NPR's "Picks for Best Foreign Fiction."
www.npr.org
2009's top works of foreign fiction, as picked by critic Jessa Crispin, feature a geography as wide ranging as their topics: genetic research, civil unrest, sibling resentment, and fairy-tale depictions of government corruption.
Open Letter Books Hey, we passed 1,000 fans! You are the real heroes.
Open Letter Books Over at Sampsonia Way magazine, you can read an excerpt from "The Golden Calf" by Ilf & Petrov. This book is the first complete translation of the Russian classic (and it's the funniest novel of the Soviet era, too).
www.sampsoniaway.org
An online magazine that provides global leadership in support of the value of freedom of speech and creative expression, and provides a forum for the work and support of the careers of writers in exile.
Open Letter Books In case you missed it: To celebrate the release of Jorge Volpi’s "Season of Ash," we recently serialized on our blog (Three Percent) a fascinating speech by Volpi on the future of Latin American fiction.
www.rochester.edu
Open Letter Books Another fab review of the "Wall in My Head" anthology. This time from Front Table . . .
blog.semcoop.com
On the evening of November 9th, this reviewer shuffled westward in the hunched crowd of what seemed to be mostly international tourists pressing slowly through the rain on Unter den Linden toward Brandenburger Tor. ...
Open Letter Books
Library Journal reviews our "Wall in My Head" anthology: "Personal recollection and reflection can provide readers with a deeper understanding of an event. This anthology of fiction, essays, images, and historical documents, assembled by Words Without Borders, does this exceptionally well." More info here: http://catal...og.openletterbooks.org/authors/18-withou
www.libraryjournal.com
Twenty years ago this November, the world changed when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) responded to increasing Eastern bloc unrest by permitting its citizens to cross into West Germany. The iron curtain, manifested to the world most clearly by the concrete Berlin Wall, fell. ...
Open Letter Books Our "2 for $22" deal is still going strong but not for much longer . . . Pick any two books for $22 flat, and you're entered to win a full year of free books from Open Letter--a potential of 12 great books for 22 bucks.
openletterbooks.org
Open Letter Books Video of our final Reading the World event of the fall, featuring a group of four writers and translators in residence at Ledig House—an international writers residency in New York that specializes in hosting authors and translators from around the world.
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2009 - Ledig House International Writers Residency is one of the only residences of its type in the United States. Since its creation in 1992, Ledig House has hosted hundreds of writers and translators from roughly 50 countries around the world. ...
Open Letter Books For those in NYC: Check out the "Wall in My Head" event at Idlewild Books tonight (hosted by Words without Borders).
Location:Idlewild Books, 12 W 19th Street, New York, NY
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, November 10th
Open Letter Books Great review in the Brooklyn Rain for our newly released anthology, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall: "The Wall in my Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain."
www.brooklynrail.org
The editors have arranged these high-caliber works to create a tension between celebratory and somber writing, and that gives the book a touch of greatness.
Open Letter Books Any book review that twice suggests the author should win the Noble Prize is a good review. In this case, the author is Jorge Volpi, and the book is SEASON OF ASH.
www.insidehighered.com
Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash is the kind of novel that reminds me why I read novels in the first place, but it’s also the kind that makes me wonder why I bother to write. Before the end of this review, I am going to try to convince you that Volpi is a genius, that you have to buy this book, and that ...
Open Letter Books A reminder for those near Rochester: The final Reading the World event of the fall is 6 p.m. tonight, featuring 4 international writers and translators from Ledig House.
Authors. Translators. Ideas.
Location:Gowen Room, Wilson Commons
Time:6:00PM Thursday, November 5th
