New review: The Red Handler: Collected Works - annotated edition, by Johan Harstad dlvr.it/T5QmC1

Very nice to see first reader-reaction to my 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑧 (complete-review.com/reviews/mao/sa…), up Goodreads goodreads.com/book/show/2100… 'An intriguing chain of erudition is unwound' ! Here's hoping more readers will be moved to: 'Hum along' !

Q & A with Lontar Foundation's John McGlynn Asymptote Journal asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/04/1…

New review: The Homeless by Stefan Żeromski dlvr.it/T5KySN

Big fan of this one (as of practically everything Adair); my review complete-review.com/reviews/adairg…. (Liked the movie, too.)

Shortlist for the International The Booker Prizes announced thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/p…

Claiming/admitting/revealing that 'textual fidelity' is a major theme of my novel (complete-review.com/reviews/mao/sa…) ... I really know how to sell it, don't I ?

Marie Darrieussecq à New-York: mercredi 10 avril à 18h conversation avec Colm Tóibín à l'occasion de la traduction de 'Pas dormir' (sleepless) chez Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) Albertine Books

Translation (and textual fidelity) are major themes in my 'Salome in Graz' (complete-review.com/reviews/mao/sa…), so I'm always curious about productions of Strauss' French version, such as the new one Opéra-Théâtre Metz opera.eurometropolemetz.eu/fr/salome_-d.h…; Ôlyrix review: olyrix.com/articles/produ…

New review: Cut Guavas: or ... Postscript to the Civilization of the Simians - a novel shapeshifting as a screenplay by Robert Antoni dlvr.it/T5BfFz

New review: The Villain's Dance by Fiston Mwanza Mujila dlvr.it/T5980M

As a reviewer, dealing with smaller publishers is very easy and pleasant.
The big ones on the other hand . . .'I would prefer not to' as Bartleby says.

'In many ways it's everything that people don't want in a novel'. Disappointed that they don't use that quote from William H. Gass' (very positive) New York Times Books review (nytimes.com/1987/01/04/boo…) for this one.