The Guardian reports that translated literary fiction sold almost twice as much as English-language fiction in the UK last year.
Translation Matters
New Borges Editions
These new Penguin Classics editions of Jorge Luis Borges' essays and poetry make a nice set, with the covers of each of the five books displaying a different rendering of Borges' portrait.
Chris Ware’s Radical Honesty
Hannah Means-Shannon shares a dispatch from the Rocky Mountain Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels in which Building Stories author (and Year in Reading alum) Chris Ware discusses his creative processes.
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Glam-sein
Selected wisdom from the Twitter feed of Kim Kierkegaardashian.
Moonstruck
Margaret Wise Brown was nothing if not an interesting figure. The Goodnight Moon author, whose life is the subject of a new biography, loved hunting, partying and staging stunts, among them founding a club that claimed they could reschedule Christmas. She kept homes in Greenwich Village and a tiny island off Maine. At Slate, Laura Miller reads the new book by Amy Gary. You could also read our own Jacob Lambert's critical review of kid's picture books.
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NY Fashion Week and the Working Writer
When high fashion and the life of a working writer combine: on Jessica Francis Kane's New York Fashion Week debut.
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The Literary Orphan
Over at The New Inquiry, Alison Kinney writes on narrative opportunity, the true function of the literary orphan, and the rage of the real orphan. This moving piece by Matthew Salesses for The Millions on adoption and searching for oneself in a strange place is a nice complement.
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