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World Books Update

By Bill Marx You want a racy, nineteenth-century epic about sex, sin, drugs, and prostitution set in China? Here it is. Two more pieces on international fiction for World Books, the feature I edit for PRI’s The World.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Columbia University Press, Gaito Gazdanov, international fiction, New-Directions, Night Roads, Northwestern University Press, summer books, World Books

World Books Update

By Bill Marx I am juggling editing and writing duties between two blogs, theartsfuse and World Books for the website of BBC/PRI’s radio program The World, which is produced at WGBH in Boston. The section aims to be a critical conversation made up of reviews, commentaries, interviews, podcasts, and news stories about international literature. Respected […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Cao Naiqian, China, Columbia University Press, Far North, Ferenc Barnás, Gaito Gazdanov, Harvey Blume, Hungry, John Balcom, Mao, Marcel Theroux, Night Trips, Northwestern University Press, Qiu Xiaolon, Short Fuse, The Mao Case, The Ninth, Tommy-Wallach

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