In 2002, the indie publisher Hesperus Press published Jonas Jonasson’s The 100-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out of the Window and Disappeared, which went on to be a massive hit and… Read more »

This has been a fine, fine couple of weeks for translation. First, there was BookExpo America in New York last week, which dedicated all of Wednesday to translation as part… Read more »

Top industry heads got together at the “Publishing for Digital Minds Conference” at the London Book Fair to discuss gender equality and whether women are being left out from the… Read more »

Next year will be the London Book Fair’s last year at the Earls Court convention center. LBF will take place in West London at the Olympia convention center in April… Read more »

Neil Gaiman has been on a roll with popular speeches lately. His commencement speech at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia last year inspired designer Gavin Aung Than to create… Read more »

Turkey is the London Book Fair’s focus country this week, and the wheels of media are correspondingly turning, with a “blagger’s guide to Turkish literature” in the Independent (“blagger” presumably means… Read more »

Greetings from London, where I’m at the London Book Fair meeting with publishers from around the world — who all want to speak about one thing: what they call the… 3 / Read more »

The status of books and the people that write them as arbiters of dissent appears to be holding strong. As MobyLives wrote yesterday, the London Book Fair has attracted controversy… Read more »

What to do when the guest of honor does not always behave so honorably? The London Book Fair faces this question and others just like it by welcoming China as this… Read more »