Hot Topics for 05.14.08

>> Writers Pick Their Favorite Obscure Books
The Voice’s “favorite writers” on what to read this summer that’s not hot off the press.

>> Inherently Subversive
And speaking of obscure writers, Wyatt Mason pens and paean to Josiah Mitchell Morse.

>> ‘She gave a voice to Irish women’
Friend June Caldwell pays tribute to Nuala O’Faolain.

>> The Prizewinners: International Edition
Over at The Millions, Garth Risk Hallberg has undertaken a study of foreign-language prizewinners and their rate of translation into English.

>> Cookbook Publishers Try to Think Small
On the rise of the kiddie cookbook.

>> Why offices shouldn't go paperless: a Paris Review discovery
The LA Times reports that a typescript of a never published Leonard Michaels interview was found — and is published in the Spring issue.

Comments

[lynn c]

Loved the Obscure Books column. I just ordered the Timothy Findley one, The Wars.

[Karen Templer]

Yeah. You don't see Harold Nicolson on many summer reading roundups.