Podcast on TBS eFM’s 1013 Main Street. Announcements: Asia Literary Review Publishes Spring Volume: 100% Korean Fiction (covered here on KTLIT) Friends of KTLIT , and even occasional commenters, Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton have a translation of Ch’ae Mansik’s awesome, My Innocent Uncle in the new NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD LITERATURE third edition. (Covered here…
Kind of dragging after a so-so radio show today, so I decided to go into Itaewon and hit the three foreigner bookstores. The first one was just in the process of re-stocking (tubs and tubs of books), so there was nothing much to look at. What The Book had nothing. But oh, the Foreigners Bookstore!…
If you’ve been following this blog (or are a regular reader of 10 Magazine) you saw an article about finding foreign books in Korea (which focused on the excellent Foreigners Bookstore near Noksapyeong Station and What the Book in Itaewon). Now, thanks to Jacco Zweetsloot and Claire Lee at the Korea Herald, I know of…
ADAPTED FROM MY UPCOMING ARTICLE IN 10 MAGAZINE ASIA One drawback of living or traveling in Korea is difficulty finding English books. Good bookstores are rare, and if you only know one or two, you are unlikely to find the range of books you like. Many of us also enjoy browsing in used bookstores, which…
Following up on the last post, I took a quick look at Powell’s Bookstores in Portland. Sadly, I won’t have time to check them out, but the website reveals: That is actual copies on shelves!!
First, I should say that Ko Un is a deserving candidate and would have been a deserving winner for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014, even though his odds did decline from as high a 6/1 last year to 33/1 this year according to Ladbrokes betting site. Ko has built a massive ouevre on…
(With apologies to DUMBFOUNDEAD for stealing a title) On the road for vacation and, as always, checking local bookstores for Korean literature. This time (as last time) I stopped in at Eastwind Books, whose motto is: Bookselling since 1982: Asian American literature, Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies, Language Learning, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Martial Arts, Qigong, Children’s Books,…
Some of the following articles could be a bit of self-wish-fulfillment, as they come from local sources, but it is nice to see some evidence that the hard work that LTI Korea and the British Council did at the London Book Fair could be paying off in terms of real increase in reputation and sales.…
Lim Chul-woo is an author of anguish (Thanks, Onyx!) and Straight Lines and Poison Gas – At the Hospital Wards, is nothing if not anguished. The novella focuses on (indirectly,so as not to get the author in trouble at the time) the Gwangju Massacre and the national attempt to pretend that it never happened. The…
The Korea Herald and other outlets are reporting on the final release date for the LTI Korea/Dalkey Archives collection the “Library of Korean Literature.” The Herald says: The first 10 volumes of Dalkey Archive Press and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Korean literature series will be hitting U.S. bookstores on Nov. 16, the Korea-based translation…