Michael Orthofer
@MAOrthofer
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M.A.Orthofer = the Complete Review + the Literary Saloon β and the novel, ππππππ ππ πΊπππ§ (2024)
Joined March 2009
The last example I came across:
The author-picture accompanying the Sunday Times' review of Jerzy Kosinski's 'The Devil Tree' (24/6/1973) might have made a . stronger and more meaningful impression if they had managed a better approximation of the spelling of his name.
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I'm impressed: it takes some doing to mention a @TheBookerPrizes-shortlisted title and get both the author's first πππ last name wrong.
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New review: HonorΓ© de Balzac's 'The Girl with the Golden Eyes'
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RT @miserabiliter: Trying to get hold a copy of every Latin text by Petrarch. Fun project, still a long way to go.
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Recently released @UNESCO report on 'The African Book Industry' [pdf] is a great overview, packed with information. Comes with this acknowledgement; great that it got this support, but I suspect we're not going to see much more of this going forward.
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Also: I'm behind on my Antoine Volodine-coverage, but it's always good to see ARC of another of his "Post-Exotic Novels" β 'The Inner Harbour' (@UMinnPress; 10/2025)
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In the mail: very nice end to the week, with a quintet of @McNallyEditions ARCs. Quite the impressive variety, too.
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Day made, however, with the lone in-the-mail arrival, the long overdue re-issue of Gregory Rabassa's translation of Manuel Mujica Lainez's 'Bomarzo', coming from @nyrbclassics
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Small haul from the annual local-library sale this year. Always good to find another ππ’π Simenon, and while I have some doubts about the Vadim that's not something I could pass up. And the Coleridge includes the plays, seems like a solid one-volume collection.
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New review: 'Fish Letters (and other stories)' by Goderdzi Chokheli
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"I am told, by someone who teaches young writers, that right now there are bold young novelists doing important work." Well, then, we're all set . .
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. the first from the new Chowringhee Press, @NobelPrize laureate Rabindranath Tagore's last novel, 'The Laboratory', translated by @arunava
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In the mail: excellent haul, consisting of the ARC of @Gospodinov68's 'Death and the Gardener' (just about out in the UK; coming to the US 10/2025, from @LiverightPub) as well as . .
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Hmmm, wonder what prompted this tweet . .
Did you know anyone can be nominated for a Nobel Prize?. Hundreds or thousands of nominations are received for the Nobel Prize every year from members of academies, university professors, scientists, previous Nobel Prize laureates, members of parliamentary assemblies and more.
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Also: looking forward to seeing: "How the Gaokao Shapes China", in 'The Highest Exam' by Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau, from @Harvard_Press
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In the mail: very excited to see more fiction from Georgia, the stories of Goderdzi Chokheli, "Fish Letters", from @dedalusbooks
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Sometimes going through all the old reviews for quotes is a chore, but it was fun returning to all the outrage about this one.
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New review: Bret Easton Ellis' notorious 'American Psycho'
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