Hopscotch

Actually, "Hopscotch" is based on a novel by Brian Garfield, who won an Edgar Award for it.

When the grumpy old man was a grumpy young man 2008

We talk here among other things about the dominance of great non-English speaking novelists, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch is one of Post’s favourite novels), Jose Saramago and the phenomenon of one-foreign-author-at-a-time, reasons for the success of 2666, why American authors have the inside track, how economics works against translation, and the opportunities that exist in publishing foreign authors.

2009 April 28 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

We talk here among other things about the dominance of great non-English speaking novelists, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch is one of Post’s favourite novels), Jose Saramago and the phenomenon of one-foreign-author-at-a-time, reasons for the success of 2666, why American authors have the inside track, how economics works against translation, and the opportunities that exist in publishing foreign authors.

Literature in Translation: Audio interview with Open Letter’s Chad Post, by Nigel Beale. 2009

We talk here among other things about the dominance of great non-English speaking novelists, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch is one of Post’s favourite novels), Jose Saramago and the phenomenon of one-foreign-author-at-a-time, reasons for the success of 2666, why American authors have the inside track, how economics works against translation, and the opportunities that exist in publishing foreign authors.

2009 April | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

Nice day to spend inside -- Right now we're watching Walter Matthau in Hopscotch.

Snowy Afternon; Being Spent Inside KaneCitizen 2007

Nice day to spend inside -- Right now we're watching Walter Matthau in Hopscotch.

Archive 2007-12-01 KaneCitizen 2007

Since "Finnegans Wake," there has been Beckett, there have been the post-Modernists, there has been "Pale Fire," there has been "Hopscotch," there has been "Infinite Jest," to name a few.

Answers art provides are far from a ‘Nuisance.’ 2008

Lalita, how old were you when you read "Hopscotch" and did you read it in Spanish?

Come clean: The books you ditched Ms Robinson 2008

She thought a moment, then came up with something that might be impossible for the monster: "Hopscotch," she said, and wrote it in her other box.

Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

She thought a moment, then came up with something that might be impossible for the monster: "Hopscotch," she said, and wrote it in her other box.

Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990