Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Literature for Free


Internet should help us getting in touch with other literatures, but we know it's not always like this. Anyway, exceptions are growing:

- This month issue from the Words Without Borders brings Modern Chinese Literature translated into English (and some Spanish and Romanian as well).

- The American Small Beer Press is publishing a collection of short stories by John Kessel for free download, under creative commons. You can do with it almost whathever you want, including reading. (Source: Boing Boing)

And for read all this PDFs you can use Skim (if you're a Mac user). I've already read some books with it. Yes, I bring my laptop to bed to read before going to sleep...

Monday, June 04, 2007

Frankfurt Book Fair 2009


Todo ano há um país convidado de honra da feira. Esse ano será a Cultura Catalã, que apesar de não ser oficialmente um país, culturalmente é como se fosse. Ano passado foi a Índia. Ano que vem será a Turquia. Acabaram de anunciar em que 2009 será a China, que aceitou não barrar a participação de dissidentes políticos. E em 2010, será a vez da Argentina.