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New edition of Norton Anthology of World Literature
:
More books here
.
News
:
- Check out my customized GPTs that allow you to converse with Socrates, Jesus, Shakespeare and others (complete list
here
).
-
The Written World
just out in
Croatian
and
Kurdish
.
-
Culture: The Story of Us
, just out in Portuguese, Slovak and Slovenian.
-
Culture: The Story of Us
, shortlisted for
Phi Beta Kappa award
.
- New edition of Norton Antho
logy of World Literature just out.
- Brazilian edition of
Culture: The Story of Us
just out.
- Culture: The Story of Us receives
Cabot award
.
-
Romanian edition
of Culture: The Story of Us just out.
-
Korean edition
of
Culture: The Story of Us
just out.
-
Financial Times
column on my customized GPTs
here
.
- Paperback edition of
Culture: Story of Us
just out.
-
Wide-ranging discussion
with philosopher Barbara Bleisch on TV.
-
Culture
wins
PNPA book award
.
-
Culture
is New York Times
Editors' Choice book
.
- Early reviews of
Culture
in
NYTimes
,
WSJ
, and
Boston Globe
.
- Alexander Kluge makes a
totally cool short film
based on the Ben Franklin chapter of
The Written World
.
-
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.
- Review of Language of Thieves in
NYTimes
.
- Read and excerpt of
Language of Thieves
in
CrimeReads
.
-
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.
Upcoming events:
September 20-22, Jaipur Festival, Seattle
October 19, Toronto,
Dublin Core Data Institute
October 26, AI and Culture, Sanders Theater, Harvard
November 4, Institute of Art and Ideas, London (online)
November 4, with Carrie Preston, BU
November 7, Weatherhead Institute, Harvard
November 19, Molise, Italy
December 12, Queen Mary, London
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