Monthly Archives: June 2011

A publishing bull’s eye

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

British publishers seem to be stuck in their ways according to Anthony Powell who introduces publishers here and there in A Dance to the Music of Time. “That had been towards the end of the nineteen-twenties. Glober had arrived in … Continue reading →

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Like the pyramids of the Aztecs

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

In Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, Benno von Archimboldi is published by Mr. Bubis’s publishing house in Hamburg. Mr. Bubis, re-establishing his company after the second world war, takes on the pseudonymous novelist’s first book with the assurance that “the book would … Continue reading →

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