Comments for The Constant Conversation

Comment on The National Humanities Medal, or, the New York Times misses a trick by Pete

Pete — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:41:49 +0000

If nothing else, that headline would have totally pissed off Huey Lewis.

Comment on Best Translated Book Award Longlist by Levi Stahl

Levi Stahl — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:16:48 +0000

In a large sense, it’s not a patch on his major work, but good god, I love Javier Marias’s Bad Nature, Or With Elvis in Mexico. It reminds me in an oblique way of Tolstoy’s Hadji Murat: a distillation, in very, very short form, of all of what makes him a great writer in longer form.

Comment on Dispatch from Winter Institute: The rigorous and playful challenge of convention by KAO

KAO — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:00:52 +0000

Good to have you back, sir.

Comment on Dispatch from Winter Institute: The rigorous and playful challenge of convention by Soo Jin Oh

Soo Jin Oh — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:54:02 +0000

Hi, Jeff,
I am loving the dispatches from the Winter Institute as it was one event I always wished I could go to and never did. It’s good to hear that the initial wave of fear post-Kindle is modulated with strategy. And genius of the Other Press to sponsor a bookseller.

I look forward to reading more about your impressions and thoughts on the Winter Institute and how you view independent bookselling moving.

Comment on Whisky Priest Books by Jeff Waxman

Jeff Waxman — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:29:17 +0000

That cover for CONTEMPTIBLE is phenomenal! Thanks, gents!

Comment on An Unhappy New Year for Borders (and publishers) by Diane

Diane — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:54:40 +0000

This only confirms what I have known intuitively for several years now in relation to my own store in the Buckhead section of Atlanta. As a serious reader, I mostly stopped wasting the gas driving there to find the computer could only tell me a book was “likely in store.” Haven’t found Barnes and Noble much better. Why bother with that nonsense when Amazon can tell me immediately if they have a book and ship it right to my door for free?

Comment on Pssst! Hey, Santa! by Jeff Waxman

Jeff Waxman — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:44:47 +0000

Not in my family, it won’t.

Comment on Revolutionary Translation Gadget or Cheap Trick? [VIDEO] by M

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:17:53 +0000

The former.

The latter: http://bit.ly/12alRq

Comment on Giacomo Leopardi by Levi Stahl

Levi Stahl — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:53:18 +0000

Ouch. That sounds easily bad enough to take the prize. E-mail me with your address and I’ll put the book into the mail to you this week.

Comment on A free ticket to the Dance! by DebraG

DebraG — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:40:38 +0000

Thanks, Levi, for your post. By linking Jonathan Ames and “Dance” you’ve prompted me to “download” the 1st Movement (purchased in 1995) from my TBR shelf and finally the damn brick omnibus!

For sheer gorgeousness, however, it’s hard to beat the 12 novels lined up like a row of seductive cupcakes in the photo above.