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<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel> <title>the Literary Saloon</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/index.htm</link> <description>opinionated commentary on literary matters</description> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Copyright 2024 the Complete Review</copyright> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs> <managingEditor>mao@complete-review.com</managingEditor> <item> <title>Sinan Antoon profile</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em4</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>The New Arab</i> Sarah Shaffi profiles the <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/arab/antoons3.htm" target="_blank">The Book of Collateral Damage</a>-author, in <a href="https://www.newarab.com/features/sinan-antoon-palestine-activism-literature-and-perseverance" target="_blank">Echoing Palestinian perseverance: Iraqi novelist Sinan Antoon on NYU Gaza protests arrest and upcoming translation of Palestinian story</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Veza-Canetti-Preis</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em5</link><description><![CDATA[ The city of Vienna has <a href="https://presse.wien.gv.at/presse/2024/07/25/autorin-karin-peschka-erhaelt-veza-canetti-preis-2024" target="_blank">announced</a> the winner of this year's Veza Canetti Prize, a €10,000 author-award for a female Austrian author, and it is Karin Peschka.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em5</guid> </item> <item> <title>Reading in ... the UK</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el9</link><description><![CDATA[ The Reading Agency has issued their 'The State of the Nation's Adult Reading: 2024 Report', reporting on the results of a survey conducted 2 to 4 April of 2003 people in the UK 16 and older -- see their <a href="https://readingagency.org.uk/adult-reading-research-report-2024/" target="_blank">summary</a> or the full <a href="https://readingagency.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/State-of-the-Nations-Adult-Reading_2024-Overview-Report-1.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> <font size="-1">(warning ! dreaded pdf format !)</font>.<br> Only 50% of respondents report reading for pleasure any longer -- down from 58% in 2015 -- with 24% of those aged 16-24 saying they were never regular readers, while an astonishing 44% in that age group are 'lapsed readers', having given up on it. <br> Interestingly, 55% of respondents reported borrowing books from their local library (16% doing so once a week)<br> Oddly, while only 50% report reading for pleasure, 52% say: "they enjoy visiting a bookshop or library" .....<br><br> (Hey, at least this is all (slightly) more than just anecdotal; for a really silly why-aren't-they/we-reading-? (non-)thought piece, see Georgina Elliott at Dazed exploring the tough question(s) of ... uh, <a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/63149/1/why-dont-straight-men-read-novels-fiction-masculinity-influencers-sigma" target="_blank">Why don't straight men read novels ?</a>) ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Lewis Lapham (1935-2024)</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em1</link><description><![CDATA[ Much-admired editor -- of <i>Harper's</i> and <i>Lapham's Quarterly</i> -- Lewis Lapham has passed away; see, for example the <a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1935-2024" target="_blank">mention</a> at <i>Lapham's Quarterly</i> or Robert D. McFadden's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/media/lewis-h-lapham-dead.html" target="_blank">obituary</a> in <i>The New York Times</i> <font size="-1">(presumably paywalled)</font>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em1</guid> </item> <item> <title>Hillbilly Elegy dumped by German publisher</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em2</link><description><![CDATA[ The German publisher of <i>Hillbilly Elegy</i> -- the bestseller written by American vice-presidential candidate (for now) J.D.Vance --, <a href="https://www.ullstein.de/" target="_blank">Ullstein</a>, has declined to renew the license for the German edition of the book (i.e. they no longer wanted to be tainted by association with it and what its author has come to represent); see, for example, Florian Kappelsberger's <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/j-d-vance-ullstein-verlag-wirft-hillbilly-elegie-aus-dem-programm-a-4d26e14d-0bae-4db8-b0bf-c8f389b3323d" target="_blank">report</a> in <i>Der Spiegel</i>. <br> A new edition will now be brought out by some new and not quite as illustrious outfit called <a href="https://www.m-vg.de/yes/shop/home/" target="_blank">YES</a>]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em2</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Understory review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em3</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Thai author Saneh Sangsuk's novel <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/thai/saneh_sangsuk.htm" target="_blank">The Understory</a> -- out from Peirene in the UK last year, and Deep Vellum in the US earlier this year.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#em3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Lev Grossman Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el8</link><description><![CDATA[ Lev Grossman's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popus/grossl3.htm" target="_blank">The Bright Sword</a> is now out, and at the Literary Hub Jane Ciabattari has a Q & A with the author, in <a href="https://lithub.com/lev-grossman-on-adapting-arthurian-legends-for-a-world-in-turmoil/" target="_blank">Lev Grossman on Adapting Arthurian Legends for a World in Turmoil</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Proust and translation</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el5</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>the drift</i> Simon Leser considers 'Proust in the Age of Retranslation', in <a href="https://www.thedriftmag.com/time-and-time-again/" target="_blank">Time and Time Again</a> -- well worth a look.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el5</guid> </item> <item> <title>New Saudi novel prize</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el6</link><description><![CDATA[ The Saudi General Entertainment Authority has <a href="https://www.gea.gov.sa/en/golden-pen-award/" target="_blank">announced</a> a new 'Golden Pen Award for the Most Influential Literature', focusing: "on the most popular novels with the highest potential for adaptation into films", whereby the: "first and second place winning novels will be adapted into films". There will also be a 'Best Screenplay Adapted from a Literary Work' -- where, again: "the first and second place screenplays will be adapted into films".<br> The prize money is good, too -- the main novel and screenplay prizes pay out US$100,000 to the winners, and US$50,000 to the second-place titles; novel category winners -- there are eight, including Best Comedy Novel and Best Historical Novel -- each get US$25,000. And there's even a translated novel-category -- also paying the winner US$100,000.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el6</guid> </item> <item> <title>A Maggot review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el7</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of John Fowles' strange 1985 novel, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popgb/fowlesj2.htm" target="_blank">A Maggot</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el7</guid> </item> <item> <title>PEN Translates winners</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el4</link><description><![CDATA[ English PEN has <a href="https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/pen-translates-winners-announced-5/" target="_blank">announced</a> the latest batch of PEN Translates winners -- 16 titles originally written in 10 languages, including Greenlandic (<i>Zombieland</i> by Sørine Steenholdt -- see the milk <a href="https://milik.gl/en/book/zombiet-nunaat/" target="_blank">publicity page</a> -- in Charlotte Barslund's translation, forthcoming from Norvik Press) and two titles in Vietnamese.<br> I look forward to seeing these .....]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Peter Blackstock Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el2</link><description><![CDATA[ <a href="https://x.com/willevans/status/1814490184727081384" target="_blank">Via</a> I'm pointed to Tim Groenland's Q & A with the <a href="https://groveatlantic.com/" target="_blank">Grove Atlantic</a>-editor in <a href="https://post45.org/2024/07/interview-with-peter-blackstock/" target="_blank">“A list that reflects the world”: An Interview with Peter Blackstock</a> at Post45.<br> It's part of their <a href="https://post45.org/sections/issue/editing-american-literature/" target="_blank">Issue 9: Editing American Literature</a>, which includes some other interesting pieces, too.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el2</guid> </item> <item> <title>China Miéville/Keanu Reeves profile</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el3</link><description><![CDATA[ China Miéville and Keanu Reeves have collaborated on a novel, <i>The Book of Elsewhere</i>, apparently based on a popular comic book series -- see the <a href="https://thebookofelsewhere.com/" target="_blank">official site</a>, or pre-order your copy at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593446593/ref=nosim/completereview" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/81962/9780593446591" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1529150531/ref=nosim/completereview07" target="_blank">Amazon.co.uk</a> -- and at <i>The Guardian</i> Sam Leith profiles them, in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/20/i-wanted-to-do-pulpy-hyper-violent-action-keanu-reeves-on-his-novel-with-china-mieville-and-the-afterlife-of-the-matrix" target="_blank">‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix</a>. <br><br> Several books by Miéville are under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> -- e.g. <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mieville/pss.htm" target="_blank">Perdido Street Station</a> -- but, while I do have and expect to get to the two volumes of <i>Dial H</i>, I don't think I'll be getting to this one. (Nothing by Reeves is under review at the site.)]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407c.htm#el3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Georg-Büchner-Preis</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek9</link><description><![CDATA[ They've <a href="https://www.deutscheakademie.de/de/aktuell/2024-07-19/georg-buechner-preis" target="_blank">announced</a> the winner of this year's Georg Büchner Prize, the leading German language author prize, and it is Oswald Egger; he will get to pick up his prize on 2 November.<br> Not much of his work is available in English, but Green Integer did publish <i>Room of Rumor: Tunings</i>; see their <a href="https://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Oswald-Egger-Room-of-Rumor-&BookID=119" target="_blank">publicity page</a>, or get your copy at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931243662/ref=nosim/completereview" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> or <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931243662/ref=nosim/completereview07" target="_blank">Amazon.co.uk</a>. <br> See also the Suhrkamp <a href="https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/person/oswald-egger-p-1057" target="_blank">author page</a>, with information about some of his other titles.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#el1</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the winner of this year's <a href="https://harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/" target="_blank">Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year</a>, with <i>In The Blink of an Eye</i> by Jo Callaghan taking the main prize.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#el1</guid> </item> <item> <title>July Asymptote</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek6</link><description><![CDATA[ The <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/jul-2024/" target="_blank">July issue</a> of <i>Asymptote</i> is now available -- a ton of good material for your weekend reading.<br> Not least: Sarah Gear has <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-interview-with-georgi-gospodinov/" target="_blank">An interview with Georgi Gospodinov</a> -- the author of <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/bulgaria/gospodg4.htm" target="_blank">Time Shelter</a> (etc.).]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek6</guid> </item> <item> <title>PEN/Heim Translation Fund</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek7</link><description><![CDATA[ PEN America administers the <a href="https://pen.org/pen-heim-grants/" target="_blank">PEN/Heim Translation Fund</a> -- and, as Dan Sheehan now reports at the Literary Hub, <a href="https://lithub.com/100-translators-call-for-pen-america-to-relinquish-control-of-the-heim-fund/" target="_blank">100+ translators call for PEN America to relinquish control of the Heim Fund</a>. <br> The translators' open letter to the PEN America Board of Trustees is printed there, along with the response from PEN America.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek7</guid> </item> <item> <title>Hong Kong Book Fair</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek8</link><description><![CDATA[ The <a href="https://hkbookfair.hktdc.com/en/index.html" target="_blank">Hong Kong Book Fair</a> runs through the 23rd, and while Atlas Shao reports that <a href="https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202407/18/WS66986f18a31095c51c50ea9b.html" target="_blank">Hong Kong Book Fair spotlights Beijing's literary treasures</a> in <i>China Daily</i>, Hans Tse reports that <a href="https://hongkongfp.com/2024/07/18/shortage-of-writers-hurting-local-literary-scene-publishers-say-as-hong-kong-book-fair-opens/" target="_blank">Shortage of writers hurting local literary scene, publishers say as Hong Kong Book Fair opens</a>.<br> Ah, those darned writer-shortages.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek3</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the latest set of winners of the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes, the leading Japanese fiction prizes; see, for example, Thu-Huong Ha's report in <i>The Japan Times</i>, <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/07/17/books/akutagawa-naoki-literary-prizes/" target="_blank">Three novelists named for Akutagawa and Naoki awards</a>.<br> The Akutagawa Prize was shared by バリ山行 ('Extreme mountain climbing') by Matsunaga K. Sanzo -- see the Kodansha <a href="https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000398207" target="_blank">publicity page</a> -- and サンショウウオの四十九日 ('The 49th day of the salamander') by Asahina Aki; see the Shinchosha <a href="https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/book/355731/" target="_blank">publicity page</a>.<br> The Naoki Prize went to ツミデミック, by Ichiho Michi; see the Kobunsha <a href="https://www.kobunsha.com/shelf/book/isbn/9784334101398" target="_blank">publicity page</a>.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Forward Prizes shortlists</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek4</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the shortlists for this year's <a href="https://forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry/" target="_blank">Forward Prizes</a> -- "the most influential awards for new poetry in the UK and Ireland" -- in its four categories. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Last Nights of Paris review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek5</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of Philippe Soupault's 1928 novel, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/surreal/soupaultp2.htm" target="_blank">Last Nights of Paris</a> -- notable, at least in its English version, also because it was translated by poet William Carlos Williams.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek5</guid> </item> <item> <title>Jan Michalski Prize shortlist</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek1</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the shortlist -- well, the 'second selection' -- for this year's <a href="https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix" target="_blank">Jan Michalski Prize for Literature</a>, awarded to a work of world literature, in any genre and any language.<br> The only one of the five titles under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/egypt/mersali.htm" target="_blank">Traces of Enayat</a> by Iman Mersal.<br> The winner will be announced on 27 November.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek1</guid> </item> <item> <title>Singapore Literature Prize shortlists</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek2</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the shortlists for this year's <a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/slp-2024" target="_blank">Singapore Literature Prize</a> -- 71 works in 16 categories in four languages -- English, Chinese, Tamil, and Malay, selected from 247 submissions. <br> At the official site you can click through the different categories and languages; somewhat more convenient is the <a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/media/attachments/2024/07/16/slp-2024-shortlist-press-release-en.pdf" target="_blank">press release</a> <font size="-1">(warning ! dreaded pdf format !)</font> -- but, given the number of shortlisted titles, it's a <i>long</i> press release -- 85 pages.<br> The winners will be announced 10 September.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ek2</guid> </item> <item> <title>New Virago Modern Classics design</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej8</link><description><![CDATA[ Virago has <a href="https://www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/2024/07/15/an-iconic-new-design-for-our-modern-classics/" target="_blank">announced</a> a new design for its Modern Classics list.<br> I liked the old, original design -- but in any case, it's the books that count.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Tonke Dragt (1930-2024)</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej9</link><description><![CDATA[ Dutch author asnd illustrator Tonke Dragt (1930-2024) has passed away; see, for example, the DutchNews <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/07/letter-to-the-king-author-tonke-dragt-dies-at-93/" target="_blank">report</a>.<br> Pushkin Press has <a href="https://pushkinpress.com/our-authors/tonke-dragt/" target="_blank">published</a> several of her works.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Worlds Built to Fall Apart review</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej7</link><description><![CDATA[ The most recent addition to the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> is my review of David Lapoujade on <i>Versions of Philip K. Dick</i>, <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/dickpk/lapoujade.htm" target="_blank">Worlds Built to Fall Apart</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej7</guid> </item> <item> <title>Benjamín Labatut profile</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej4</link><description><![CDATA[ In <i>The Guardian</i> Sam Leith has a profile of the <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/chile/labatutb.htm" target="_blank">We Cease to Understand the World1</a>-author, in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/13/people-say-my-book-gave-them-a-panic-attack-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-author-benjamin-labatut" target="_blank">‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej4</guid> </item> <item> <title>Prix de la littérature arabe finalists</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej5</link><description><![CDATA[ They've announced the finalists for this year's prix de la littérature arabe; see, for example, the Livres Hebdo <a href="https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/la-selection-du-prix-de-la-litterature-arabe-2024" target="_blank">report</a>. <br> The winner will be announced 27 November.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej5</guid> </item> <item> <title>Top ... 75 Sci-Fi books</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej6</link><description><![CDATA[ Two year's ago I <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202203c.htm#uy9" target="_blank">mentioned</a> <i>Esquire</i>'s list of '50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time'. <br> Well, they've now expanded it, offering: <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39358054/best-sci-fi-books/" target="_blank">The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time</a>. <br> As I already complained regarding the 50-title list, they continue to limit it to one book per author, undermining their 'best' claim. (If you're putting together a best <i>book</i> list, it doesn't/can't matter who wrote them .....) <br><br> Look for their top-100 list, presumably coming in the fall of 2026. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej6</guid> </item> <item> <title>New RSL fellows</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej2</link><description><![CDATA[ The Royal Society of Literature has <a href="https://rsliterature.org/announcement-of-2024-fellows-and-honorary-fellows/" target="_blank">announced</a> 29 new Fellows and 13 new Honorary Fellows.<br><br> Works by only two of the new Fellows are under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> -- Mick Herron (e.g. <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/herronm/secret_hours.htm" target="_blank">The Secret Hours</a>) and Nii Ayikwei Parkes (<a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ghana/parkesna.htm" target="_blank">Tail of the Blue Bird</a>). ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej2</guid> </item> <item> <title>Bestselling in ... the UK</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej3</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>The Bookseller</i> Tom Tivnan <a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/features/2024s-bestselling-authors-so-far-julia-donaldson-remains-tops" target="_blank">reports</a> on the bestselling books and authors in the UK for the first half of the year, according to Nielsen BookScan; see also the <a href="https://drsw10gc90t0z.cloudfront.net/AcuCustom/Sitename/DAM/541/BS28_p08_09-21.jpg" target="_blank">top 20</a> -- both by units sold and value. <br> Julia Donaldson tops the list, with 1,253,890 units sold; J.K.Rowling is third, with 383,261; Stephen King slips in at number 19, with 159,186.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej3</guid> </item> <item> <title>Dennis Cooper Q & A</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ei8</link><description><![CDATA[ At <i>Interview</i> Lucy K. Shaw has a Q & A with <a href="https://www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/dennis-cooper-has-a-new-book-out-just-dont-expect-him-to-do-any-readings" target="_blank">Dennis Cooper Has a New Book Out. Just Don't Expect Him to Do Any Readings.</a><br> Among his responses: <blockquote><font size="-1">I read a lot of fiction, but I only read avant-garde fiction or whatever, I never read normal fiction.</font></blockquote> (And see also <a href="https://denniscooperblog.com/" target="_blank">DC's</a>, 'The blog of author Dennis Cooper'.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ei8</guid> </item> <item> <title>Union State literature awards</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ei9</link><description><![CDATA[ BelTA reports that <a href="https://eng.belta.by/president/view/lukashenko-presents-union-state-literature-art-awards-at-slavianski-bazaar-in-vitebsk-159720-2024/" target="_blank">Lukashenko presents Union State literature, art awards at Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk</a>, as Putin-puppet Aleksandr Lukashenko presented: "prizes of the Union State of Belarus and Russia for literature and art for 2023-2024 to people, who had made a significant contribution to the reinforcement of friendship between the peoples of Belarus and Russia". <br> Yeah, there's an 'honor' ..... <br> And I don't suspect we'll see the work of any of these prize-winners in English (or other) translation soon.]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ei9</guid> </item> <item> <title>Lit Hub's Most Anticipated (II)</title> <link>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej1</link><description><![CDATA[ At the Literary Hub they have <a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-anticipated-books-of-2024-part-two/?single=true" target="_blank">Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two</a> -- '193 Books to Read in the Second Half of the Year'. <br> Certainly some titles of interest here ..... <br> The only titles under review at the <font color="#a52a2a"><i>complete review</i></font> at this time are Lev Grossman's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popus/grossl3.htm" target="_blank">The Bright Sword</a> and Ogawa Yoko's <a href="https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/japannew/ogaway14.htm" target="_blank">Mina's Matchbox</a>. ]]></description> <guid>https://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/202407b.htm#ej1</guid> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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