Asian Books
Blog is based in Singapore. Lion City Lit explores in-depth
what’s going on in the City-State, lit-wise. Here LucĂa Damacela continues her occasional
series of conversations with founders and editors of Singapore-based online literary
magazines. Today, the focus is on the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, (QLRS), the longest- running online literary magazine in the country.
Thursday 28 July 2016
Friday 22 July 2016
500 words from Quincy Carroll
500 words from...is a series of guest posts from authors
writing about Asia, or published by Asia-based, or Asia-focused, publishing
houses, in which they talk about their latest books. Quincy Carroll is a writer
from Massachusetts. After graduating from college in 2007, he moved to Hunan,
China, for three years. He currently works at a school in Oakland, California. He
published his debut novel Up to the
Mountains and Down to the Countryside through Inkshares, a crowd-funding platform. Here he talks about how crowd-funding got his novel off the ground.
Thursday 14 July 2016
500 words from Jeffrey Wasserstrom
500 words from...is a series of guest posts from authors writing about
Asia, or published by Asia-based, or Asia-focused, publishing houses, in which
they talk about their latest books. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is an American
historian of modern China who teaches at the University of California, Irvine. He
edited a fantastic new reference book, the Oxford Illustrated History of Modern
China. Here
he talks about selecting the illustrations.
Tuesday 12 July 2016
Classics corner: A Pail of Oysters, by Vern Sneider
Asian Books
Blog generally covers new books, but in this new series, classics corner, guest
writers will introduce older titles you may like to read. Jonathan Benda kicks
off the series by discussing A Pail of
Oysters, by Vern Sneider
Friday 8 July 2016
A day in the life of Michael Cannings
A day in the life of…is an occasional series in which people working in the
publishing industry talk about their typical working day. Here, Michael Cannings, one of the founders
of Camphor Press, a British-Taiwanese publishing house specialising in books
about East Asia, in particular Taiwan, explains there is in fact no typical
working day in his life…
Thursday 30 June 2016
Indie Spotlight: Marco Lobo
Indie Spotlight is Siobhan Daiko’s monthly column on self-publishing. This month she talks to indie author Marco Lobo.
Wednesday 29 June 2016
Lion City Lit: Q & A with Eric Tinsay Valles,
Asian
Books Blog is based in Singapore. Our regular column, Lion City Lit, explores
in-depth what's happening in the City-State lit-wise. Here, Elissa Viornery interviews Eric Tinsay Valles, Festival Director of the National Poetry Festival (NPF). This will run from July 29 to 31 at the National Museum, Lasalle College of the Arts, and other venues.
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