Posts tagged The Daily Beast
My first go-round as a regular book reviewer for The Daily Beast is up (I wrote the last two in the series this week). Look for me again next month!
Above is an accurate visual dipiction of a day in my life.
Herman Koch’s novel The Dinner has become a bona fide literary sensation in Europe and elsewhere around the world. This week, it comes to the United States. I looked into it’s prospects for success for The Daily Beast, along with a broader look at the market for foreign translations in America.
P.S. I really enjoyed the book. Recommended read!
Can Herman Koch’s ‘The Dinner’ Take America by Storm? (The Daily Beast)
Interviewer: Describe your routine when conceiving of a book and its plot, before the writing begins.
Gary Shteyngart: I’ll read something by a better writer, and I’ll be, like, “Hmm, what if I made this, you know, more Russian?”
From this interview in the Daily Beast, which mostly isn’t taken very seriously.
Nothing brings out the eloquence of writers and laymen alike the way love does, as evidenced by the epistolary proclamations excerpted in the new book Love Letters, which I covered in this piece for The Daily Beast. It’s as close as you’ll see me getting to celebrating Valentine’s Day!
‘Love Letters’ Anthologizes 2,000 Years of Passion Put to Paper (The Daily Beast).
