As an early Bloomsday treat, here is a brilliant essay by Carlos Gamerro on Borges and Joyce (what Borges took from Joyce, what he disliked, their differences and what they shared) and much more. Full…
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Five for Friday: my favourite Tweeters
By @g_oneil 1. @Googlepoetics Ridiculous search engine-generated nonsense, or is this the poetry of the modern age? Perhaps not, but if you’re looking to kill five minutes and be cast into a state of…
Five for Friday: short story collections I love
Prompted by Black Vodka’s inclusion on today’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award shortlist announcement, I thought I’d share five of my other favourite short story collections. These are the ones where the book is…
Margaret Jull Costa on Agualusa’s untranslated masterpiece
Margaret Jull Costa shares her reading of Agualusa’s untranslated masterpiece here with Ampersand’s readers. (Involving a pygmy hippo?! Has he read Down the Rabbit Hole perchance?) José Eduardo Agualusa’s novel is one of the three books selected…
Angolan Expression
Here’s a taster of the revolutionary background of our current Angolan reading. Thanks to Francisco Vilhena for writing this post: In 1964, the Portuguese Society of Authors (PSE) awarded a collection of short stories the…
Five for Friday: 5 Book Programmes
I love podcasts and talk programmes about books. I love being able to get away from the computer screen and listen to authors and perceptive readers – mainly while I’m shaving, tidying up, doing something…
Happy Sant Jordi Day!
We’re dreaming of Barcelona in the And Other Stories office today, where it’s full-blown, all-out Catalan extravaganza Sant Jordi Day (St George’s Day). La Diada de Sant Jordi is the patron saint of Catalonia, and…
Oleg Pavlov launches Captain of the Steppe
Oleg Pavlov came to London this week to celebrate the launch of Captain of the Steppe. Oleg was invited to take part in a number of events organised by Read Russia and was in great demand…
A Look Inside Our French Reading Group…
Louise Rogers, chair of our Paris-based French reading group, dissects the current French obsession with contemporary American culture and how this plays out in two intriguing new novels . . . Vive la mort! Les…
Faber Social – Lost in Translation
We took two of our authors to get friendly with Faber at the Social on Little Portland Street the other night. Deborah Levy and Iosi Havilio are both charismatic performers as well as great writers,…
