Haun Saussy and Emanuel Pastreich on Korean Translated Literature

An interesting transcript of an interview with Haun Saussy (Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago) which took places at the Asia Institute Seminar at the conclusion of  December 2011. This is from Emanuel Pastreich‘s blog Korea: Circles and Squares, which became immediately lovable to me when I read Pastreich’s About page which…

Found On The Web #15

Two bits of good news about modern authors and one bit of good (with a strong side order of ludicrous) news about and older one. First, the a very short article, nearly a press-release, announcing that Author Kong Ji-young, 48, will donate the entire royalty from her four novels released in Japan to victims of…