What’s a WUB? It’s the end of October (already?!) and thus time for another round of the German “Independent Bookshop Week”: the WUB, Woche Unabhängiger Buchhandlungen, 23-30 October 2021. Read more
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#IndieSommer, Women in Translation Month and Summer Break 2021
Dear readers, We’re off for a break now! But before we leave, here are two wee projects you might enjoy. Hope we can all get some rest – see you all after the break! #IndieSommer Read more
Books News April – May – June
Prizes, bibliodiversity, women writers, green issues, freedom of speech – Read more
Happy in Berlin? English and British Writers and the Berlin Myth
Musa Okwonga, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Kate McNaughton, Rory McLean – the list can be continued easily. All these writers grew up in Britain, or have close ties with the UK, but they live or have lived in Berlin Read more
Christmas in April – Post Kultur Parcels
Gesa Stedman introduces Post Kultur Read more
Book News February – March 2021
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most recent news – for once, with a German focus. The German literary field has been rocked by two events which have generated an unprecedented amount of news and debates in newspapers and social media. This is going to be an unusual post, as […] Read more
Book News January 2021
Gesa Stedman listens to the radio, worries about giving up air and review space in favour of infotainment, questions the relation between politics and aesthetics, and once again looks at bookselling during the pandemic. Read more
International Book Market Data, curtesy of Frankfurt Book Fair 2020
Frankfurt Book Fair created an online edition this year. Actually, they went back and forth in the run-up and gradually reduced the face-to-face or on-location parts before deciding to go completely online in these special times. While many people expressed their disappointment at this, I can’t actually imagine something as […] Read more
Happy & Healthy Holidays
Happy Holidays! May the next year be less like this one… Here’s some inspiration for the holidays and beyond: The 2020 Advent Calendar of German indie publishers: www.instagram.com/wereadindie or: www.readindie.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/der-adventskalender-der-unabhaengigen-verlage For German books in English translation, visit the fabulous and newly founded imprint V&Q Books (and check out their blog […] Read more
Book News – What Happened in November and December 2020
Gesa Stedman rounds up the latest news from the literary field, including prizes, bookselling during the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the climate crisis. Read more
