Two reviews appeared this weekend of Stephen Henighan's A Report on the Afterlife of Culture. The first, in the Globe & Mail, was, err, negative. It can be found here:
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080726.BKHENI26/TPStory/Entertainment/Books
Though it may be poor form to weigh in on this, as Nigel is obviously completely at his liberty to dislike this book, a few of his criticism were, I think, at the very least debatable. I think he misses the point on the discussion of Ian McEwan; it was the British who were responsible the interest in Robert Bolano (beating American publishers to the punch by a few years); it's pretty well documented that American interest in Latin American writing has been rather stagnate for quite some time (this is one of the reasons why a press like Biblioasis can afford to go after some of the best Latin American writers in the world: there's just not that many places, on either side of the Atlantic, interested in bringing Moya and company into english); good fiction may not be produced with foreign rights sales in mind, but a lot of the fiction agented by the big rep houses is; I could go on ... but ...
Thankfully, not all the coverage this weekend was quite so negative: the second review was by Alex Good in the Guelph Mercury. Here's the gist of this short capsule:
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