How we read – or how we write, too – is subject to continuous change, just as the social and cultural environment that is framing our habits and approaches. The digital space which has evolved over the past decade through the Internet, the culture of the web and, most recently, ebooks, are now impacting with…
2014
2014, Debates and recommendations
‘Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business’. (Winston Churchill)
by Rosie Goldsmith •
If you’re a politician in Britain today everything is political. Even your holidays. Whether you even go on holiday. Who with (Silvio Berlusconi is not a good idea. Cf. Mr Blair). What you wear (sandals and shorts? You mean, politicians have legs?!). Where you go on holiday (Europe=in favour of the EU; Scotland=in favour of…
2014, Comic and Graphic Novel
Graphiv novel – Literature?/ Literatur?
by Vea Kaiser •
Auf den Vortrag von Christian Gasser bei den Europäischen Literaturtagen 2013 freute ich mich schon seit zwölf Stunden. Auf dem nächtlichen Weg von der Eröffnungsveranstaltung ins Hotel zog er ein unendlich süffisantes, charmantes Lächeln auf und bemerkte: „Seit es den Terminus Graphic Novel gibt, wird einer wie ich zu solchen Veranstaltungen eingeladen. In Frankreich ist…
2014, Debates and recommendations
ENJOYING A EUROPEAN HEATWAVE
by Rosie Goldsmith •
For once we in the UK share something positive with the rest of Europe: we’re enjoying a heatwave! But in spite of our generally Eurosceptic tendencies in the UK, I am happy to announce that we are also sharing more than high temperatures – an interest in European literature. We may not have the statistics…
2014, e-literature
Chris Meade on the Future of Literature/ Chris Meade über die Zukunft der Literatur
by Veronika Trubel •
The Studio on the Future of Books and Texts at the 2014 Solothurn Literature Days featured a series of lectures and discussions on the future of the book, which will be collected in the “Observatory of Contemporary European Literature”. According to Chris Meade, “Words can move around much more freely today”, a statement, which on…
2014, e-literature
Weiterlesen
by Walter Grond •
Chris Meade ist Direktor des Instituts The Future of the Book in London. Für das „Zukunftsatelier Buch_Text” der Solothurner Literaturtage 2014 schrieb er folgenden Beitrag, der hier in Kooperation und mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Solothurner Literaturtage erscheint. Siehe dazu auch den Beitrag von Veronika Trubel: Chris Meade über das Weiterlesen. Wie sehen literarische Texte in…
2014, e-literature
Read on
by Walter Grond •
Chris Meade, Director of if:book – The Future of the Book in London. Für das „Zukunftsatelier Buch_Text” der Solothurner Literaturtage 2014 schrieb er folgenden Beitrag, der hier in Kooperation und mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Solothurner Literaturtage erscheint. Siehe dazu auch den Beitrag von Veronika Trubel: Chris Meade über das Weiterlesen. What will literary texts…
2014, Debates and recommendations
My Summer Reads (or ‘Life is Too Short to Read a Bad Book’!)
by Rosie Goldsmith •
SUMMER BOOKS 2014 My summer reading is so precious that I start gathering my pile of holiday books as early as Christmas. And I look forward to it like a child at Christmas too, knowing that summer – as it is for many of us – provides our only stretch of real relaxation all year.…
2014, Bookmarket, e-literature
Slovenian bookmarket, English books and e-book piracy in Bulgaria/ Slowenischer Buchmarkt, englische Bücher und E-Book Piraterie in Bulgarien
by Vea Kaiser •
As writers, we tend to be preoccupied with the production of text. We rely on someone else doing the right thing with our material and being successful at marketing. If this doesn’t happen, we’re usually annoyed, frustrated and fed up. If everything works out as I imagine and I don’t fall victim to a fatal…
2014, Debates and recommendations
The Glastonbury of the Mind
by Rosie Goldsmith •
President Bill Clinton famously described the UK’s Hay-on-Wye literature festival as ‘the Woodstock of the Mind’. But for me ‘Woodstock’ doesn’t quite convey the quintessential British nature of 2 of our greatest summer festivals at Hay and Glastonbury. Yes, ofcourse ‘Woodstock’ implies tents and fields, festival chic and mind-expanding events but it doesn’t convey ‘British…