In the wake of the death of influential poet, cultural critic, historian and professor Talât Sait Halman in 2014, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has established the Talât… Read more »

Oolipo, a subscription-based mobile reading service from German publisher Bastei Lübbe, will launch in July of next year, The Bookseller’s Lisa Campbell reports. In a sidebar profile, Oolipo’s Chief Product Officer Ryan… Read more »

The question of  how to arrange books on a shelf gives every bibliophile pause. A seemingly simple task has enormous possibilities. Should books be arranged by subject, author’s last name, or… Read more »

Today is the 77th anniversary of Georges Perec’s birth on March 7, 1936. He had a pleasant voice. (Maybe it’s the French accent.) You can listen to it in this… Read more »

There are some pretty weird books out there (I don’t know if you’ve seen this one about How To Sharpen Pencils? or this other one where a famous Oulipian tells… Read more »

Over at the New York Review of Books blog, you’ll find an excerpt from our forthcoming La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams by Georges Perec, in a translation by Daniel Levin… Read more »

Oh, Jonathan Franzen. Does your foot just really like being in your mouth? Fresh from making weird and irrelevant comments about Edith Wharton’s ugliness, he’s chanced for a sly jab… Read more »