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08/11/2023

Sponsored: Daryl R. Hague translates Sergio Ramirez' Dead Men Cast No Shadows, the final installment of the Managua Trilogy, into English.

28/10/2023

El Festival Eñe, que se organiza desde 2009, es uno de los eventos literarios más importantes de Madrid. Congrega a los más destacados protagonistas de la literatura en español. El prestigioso Premio Festival Eñe que mañana tendré el honor de recibir, ha sido entregado a escritores de renombre como Mario Vargas Llosa, Almudena Grandes, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Gioconda Belli, Javier Cercas y Rosa Montero.

Los invito a acompañarme en la ceremonia de entrega.

🏆 PREMIOS 🏆

En nuestro 15º aniversario le otorgamos el Premio Festival Eñe al escritor nicaragüense Sergio Ramírez () por toda su obra, hito en la literatura iberoamericana, en la que ha trazado un vasto y riquísimo recorrido acerca de la condición humana.

El Premio Festival Eñe , que reconoce el talento emergente de la mano de , es para la escritora canaria .

¡No te pierdas la entrega de premios mañana!

📅 Sábado 28 de octubre, 19h15
📍 (Marqués de Casa Riera, 2)
🎟 Entrada libre hasta completar aforo

Más info: http://www.xn--festivalee-19a.com/

02/09/2023

For National Translation Month, observed annually during the month of September, we asked our member magazines and presses to share some of the literature they have published in translation.   Fiction   Silence by Engin Akyürek Translated from the Turkish by Doina L. Kovalik and Atiye Erden Flexi...

09/03/2023

https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/headless-world/

"Headless World" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Literary (Adult Fiction). Composed of one hundred thirty-one chapters divided midway by a solid red page, "Headless World" confronts the invention of time within the universe of human experience, memory, and desire. Impressionistic, disruptive, and h...

03/03/2023

Esto de la patria común, que en los libros escolares y en los textos de historia parece como una vana aspiración, o una formulación retórica, frente al drama nicaragüense cobra sentido real

10/12/2022

A recent and excellent profile by Victor Nunez Jaime in the Madrid magazine Milenio: The Second Exile of Sergio Ramirez. An English translation is available right at the site, and it's pretty good (though pronoun genders are sometimes wrong). "The man who, at eighty years old, refuses to be grumpy, greedy and old, faces the daily life of his second exile with the resignation and integrity that the situation deserves. At night he reads for a long time and turns off the light at around one in the morning. He gets up around eight, showers, checks the news and email on his cell phone, has breakfast and, around 10 in the morning, goes to his small study, turns on his laptop, puts on chamber music, never symphony orchestra because he gets distracted, and starts writing." It is a particular honor at this time for McPherson & Company to be his principal English language publisher. https://www.milenio.com/cultura/laberinto/el-segundo-exilio-de-sergio-ramirez?fbclid=IwAR2Xckxy175_TvXq3XPcwp6tDtamE9sD_hxYGvrTTC7xhWE5_4PL0z7lFKU

Desde hace casi un año, vive exiliado en Madrid, donde Laberinto lo ha acompañado para retratar su cotidianidad.

22/11/2022

“There’s something uncanny about Headless World, as if Death were broadcasting a mysteriously encoded sit-com to let us know it’s on its way, or as if an alien species that had devoured our memories was now using them to shift the syntax of our thoughts. As if several childhoods that had only ever appeared on television suddenly came to life as an amnesiac’s fragmented memories of the twentieth century, the laughs played for horror and the horror for laughs. A strange object, unlike any other book you’ll ever read, relentless, hilarious, a ferocious trance, a secret key. The final Ascher/Straus novel will help you think about time and memory and what’s been missing from the screens that replaced our heads—almost all of us, almost everything. A brilliant lucid dream about technologies that continue to root so deeply into reality that they’ve become the fairy tales we recite to children as we’re decapitating them one more time.”—Stephen Beachy, author of Glory Hole and boneyard

McPherson & Company is an independent book publisher focused on contemporary literature and culture.

17/11/2022

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in November 2022 from CLMP members.   Learned by Carellin Brooks Book*hug Press | November 1, 2022 In this novel-in-verse, “the speaker trembles on the verge of discovery, pushing h...

15/11/2022

14/11/2022

McPherson & Company is an independent book publisher focused on contemporary literature and culture.

14/11/2022

We are exceptionally pleased to announce the publication of Headless World, a new novel by Ascher/Straus, authors of The Menaced Assassin and The Other Planet
ISBN 978-1-62054-049-7, 336 pages, 5.5 x 8.5”, trade paperback

Composed of one hundred thirty-one chapters divided midway by a solid red page, Headless World confronts the invention of Time within the universe of human experience, memory and desire. Impressionistic, disruptive, and hermetic, this is a strangely alluring, disturbingly prophetic, and comically disturbing speculative fiction. Here, the edges between human reality and inhuman fantasy are sharply observed and imbued with saturated colors, sensual cravings, sonic banality, ontological mystery, theatrical cruelty, and an encroaching trans-human future.
“There’s something uncanny about Headless World, as if Death were broadcasting a mysteriously encoded sit-com to let us know it’s on its way, or as if an alien species that had devoured our memories was now using them to shift the syntax of our thoughts. As if several childhoods that had only ever appeared on television suddenly came to life as an amnesiac’s fragmented memories of the twentieth century, the laughs played for horror and the horror for laughs. A strange object, unlike any other book you’ll ever read, relentless, hilarious, a ferocious trance, a secret key. The final Ascher/Straus novel will help you think about time and memory and what’s been missing from the screens that replaced our heads—almost all of us, almost everything. A brilliant lucid dream about technologies that continue to root so deeply into reality that they’ve become the fairy tales we recite to children as we’re decapitating them one more time.”—Stephen Beachy, author of Glory Hole and boneyard
“What is it that we ARE, and also WHERE and WHEN are we? There’s static on the TV and in our heads and this fuzziness is questioning whether memory is real or just a glitch in the programming. If time is a human problem, then our childhoods may or may not exist; our memories torment us as a thinning reality of an ever-abandoning before. In Headless World, nobody looks like ‘themself’ and the ‘self’ is a slippery, pretzely concept always a distance from characters waking up in familiarly unfamiliar landscapes reminiscent of both the future and the past. The promise of death infuses every utterance of Ascher/Straus’ final novel like the fetid scent of a dying animal caught somewhere in the walls of our house — it’s everywhere and nowhere, so close and yet wholly unreachable, a brutal presence of the Real we’re forced to sit with, or else abandon completely. That is, the hope of transcendence arrives in the form of a novel that escapes the spoor of endless mechanical reproduction, in a narrative-channel that defies any viral popular culture logic—it’s a “twirling spindle of infinity,” a black hole devouring itself as it churns. I’m so in love with this book.” — Rachel Nagelberg, author of The Fifth Wall

McPherson & Company is an independent book publisher focused on contemporary literature and culture.

29/09/2022

Coming in NOVEMBER 2022

Ramirez again combines a taut thriller plot with a searing portrayal of Nicaragua and elements of magical realism with the brill...

06/09/2022

14/07/2022

https://havanatimes.org/features/sergio-ramirez-on-nicaragua-and-dictatorships/

Change must come through “peaceful resistance” with an outcome that doesn’t involve “enthroning a new strongman figure.”