The Nathanael West Project

ALIVE INSIDE - VOL 1 BROOKLYN

BRINGING NATHANAEL WEST

BACK TO LIFE:

A REVIEW OF ALIVE INSIDE THE WRECK

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VOL 1 BROOKLYN

 

 

 

 

 

WHO ARE THEY:

Volume 1 Brooklyn is a multimedia project hell-bent on bridging any and all gaps between literature and other forms of high and low culture — be it music, art, politics, film, humor or a dynamic mix of all of those pursuits.

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WHAT DID THEY SAY:

Joe Winkler wrote today:

"Now Joe Woodward in his choppy, but ultimately compelling biography of West...makes a good case for the widespread contemporary relevance of West."

Winkler finds me "astute" and complains the book "opens too well."

Really nicely done.  Dents and all.  Take a read:

http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2012/03/15/alive-inside-the-wreck-reviewing-a-biography-of-nathanael-west/

 

 

 

 

LATimes Book Festival Panel

LA TIMES BOOK FESTIVAL

Sunday, April 22, 11:00 a.m.

Nonfiction: Reporting the Arts

Moderator:

Orli Low, Former Asst. Edit. LAT

Panelists:

Joe Woodward

Anne-Marie O'Connor

RJ Smith

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Woodward

ALIVE INSIDE THE WRECK: A Biography of Nathanael West

Anne-Marie O'Connor

THE LADY IN GOLD: The Extradordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

RJ Smith

THE ONE: The Life and Music of James Brown & THE GREAT BLACK WAY: Los Angeles in the 1940s & The Lost African-American Renaissance

Join us at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival for lively talk and conversation.

 

 

Lost & Found in Translation: New Essay @ The Huffington Post

Translators, and biographers, make good readers.  Today, from me, in The Huntington Post:

The Huntington Post:

The enterprise of translation has always interested me.  As a young reader, of course, I read the canonized foreign “classics” of my time: the Russians, the French, the Spanish, the Central and South Americans.  I read more Europeans than anything.  I read no Asian literature.  I read no African literature.  Well, very, very little.

As I grew into a young writer, I was exposed to more literature in other languages—largely, it seemed, because my teachers found in foreign literature new literary forms to share.  It seemed to all of us young writers that our contemporaries in other countries were somehow freer to experiment with plot and character, with lyric language than Americans.

Just this week, the 2012 fiction long list (25 titles) of the Best Translated Book Awards was announced.  It includes books from 14 countries and 12 languages.  The awards program is organized by “Three Percent,” a part of the University of Rochester translation program and Open Letter Press, also associated with the university.  The finalists in fiction will be announced on April 10^th in conjunction with the poetry finalists.  The winners in both categories will be celebrated at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York City....