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News
:
- New book,
Literature for a Changing Planet
, Feb. 8.
-
Language of Thieves
long-listed for
Wingate prize
.
- German edition,
Die Sprache der Vagabunden
, just out.
- FT
review
of
Literature for a Changing Planet:
best book of the week
.
- My review of Ferrara's book on writing in the
New York Times
.
-
Sprache der Vagabunden
is Humboldt Book of the Week.
- Publishers Weekly
review
of
Literature for a Changing Planet
.
- Excerpt from
Literature for a Changing Planet
on
LitHub
.
- 2021 Humboldt Prize.
- Rotwelsch on
German TV
.
- Oped on language and the New Right, in
LA Times
.
- Op-ed on the last four years,
LA Times
.
- The
Language of Thieves
is NYTimes
Editors' Choice
book.
- Just out: Iranian edition of
The Written World,
with interview
.
- Review of Language of Thieves in
NYTimes
.
- Pre-pub review of
Language of Thieves
in
Publishers Weekly
.
- Read and excerpt of
Language of Thieves
in
CrimeReads
.
- Interview with
Beijing News
.
-
The Written World
wins
Massachusetts Book Award
.
-
The Written World
available in translation:
Brazil
,
China
,
Korea
,
Japan
,
Taiwan
,
Spain
,
Italy
,
France
,
Germany
,
Portugal
,
Czech Republic
,
Romania
,
Russia
,
Slovenia
, Iran, Ukraine,
Turkey
,
Saudi Arabia
(more on the way).
-
The Written World
on
WSJ bestseller list
;
NYTimes Editors' Choice
.
- Berlin Prize,
American Academy in Berlin
- The Story of Literature--in 1001 Words (
BBC
)
- The Technological Shift Behind the World's First Novel (
Atlantic
)
- Op-ed on literature in careers of Obama and Trump (
I
rish Times
).
- Ten Books that Changed the World (
Granta
).
-
Guggenheim fellowship
.
-
Cullman fellowship at the New York Public Library.
-
New
Norton Anthology of World Literature
, with Emily Wilson's translation of
The
Odyssey
, especially commissioned for this edition.
Upcoming event, Literature for a Changing Planet:
- January 12:
Harvard bookstore, 7:30pm
.
- January 15: Crimson Global Essay Competition, 9am.
- January 16: Phoenix Book Club.
- January 18:
Boston Athenaeum, 12 pm
.
- January 23:
English Literature Summit
, 7am EST.
- February 8: pub date,
Literature for a Changing Planet
.
- February 9:
Copperfield Books, 9pm EST
.
- April 13, Child Memorial Lecture, American University.
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