Gesa Stedman goes on a round-trip and gives you the latest on sales figures, endemic racism in the literary field, bookselling during a pandemic, and more. The next Book News will be published after the summer break. Read more
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Book News – The Latest Developments from the Literary Field
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most important news from the literary field from in-house audio production to more or less Read more
Racism and the Booker Prize: Bernadine Evaristo is not “the other author”!
While it was already doubtful whether Bernadine Evaristo as the first black woman ever to win The Booker Prize Read more
Do We Need Copyright? Part V of a Review of Tim Parks’ Where I’m Reading From
Gesa Stedman takes Tim Parks to task again and explores the intricacies of copyright with him. While she applauds how Parks widens the perspective, she is sceptical whether copyright should be considered unnecessary. Copyright has a history. It is not god-given, or EU-invented Read more
E-Books Are For Grown-ups? Review of Tim Parks, Where I’m Reading From, Part IV
In the fourth instalment of her multi-part review of Tim Parks’ essay collection Where I’m Reading From. The Changing World of Books, Gesa Stedman disagrees with the author again. E-books, she thinks, may be for grown-ups, but that doesn’t make them any more appealing. Tim Parks cannot really understand the […] Read more
Do We Need Stories? Yes! Part III of Tim Parks, Where I’m Reading From
In her fourth instalment of her multi-part review of Tim Parks’ essay collection Where I’m Reading From. The Changing World of Books, Gesa Stedman disagrees Read more
New Series on The Literary Field Kaleidoscope for World Book Day: A Review of Tim Parks’ “Where I’m Reading From” in Monthly Instalments
It is World Book Day today (only the English celebrate it in March) and a highly suitable occasion for us to launch a new monthly series: a chapter-by-chapter review of Tim Parks’ essay collection Where I’m Reading From. The Changing World of Books. He first published his collection Read more
Kann man eine Lüge dichten? Thekla Dannenbergs Bericht von der Leipziger Buchmesse
Kann man eine Lüge dichten? Thekla Dannenberg fasst ihre Eindrücke von der Leipziger Buchmesse zusammen, die von der Debatte um rechte Verlage, aber auch von Copyright-Fragen und den Überlebenschancen kleiner Verlage bestimmt war. Wie schon in Frankfurt war auch die Buchmesse in Leipzig von der Debatte um rechte Verlage geprägt. […] Read more
Jhalak Prize for Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I No Longer Talk to White People about Race
Gesa Stedman explains one of the most recent attempts to diversify the literary field in the UK, the Jhalak Prize, which was awarded for the second time on 15 March 2018. Read more
