Writing is "Facing Up to Reality," say Grossman, Vargas Llosa

Writing is "Facing Up to Reality," say Grossman, Vargas Llosa Writing should be about confronting issues to provoke change, said Israel's David Grossman to Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa at the FIL in Guadalajara.

Ether for Authors: "Amazon Will Be Disrupted One Day" Rounding up the week's web buzz, Porter Anderson looks at the the drone-high perspective needed to understand Amazon beyond its impact on books and publishing.

More News from PP: Why Translation is Integral to Indian Literary Life "The West [looks] at multilingualism as a problem to be tackled, while for India it has been a vital source of creative abundance," writes K. Satchidanandan. In Russia, "Literary Assembly" Replaces Soviet-era Writer’s Union A new state-sanctioned Literary Assembly will replace the Soviet-era Union of Writers, and Vladimir Putin has declared 2015 a Year of Literature in Russia.

From the Archives: Foreign Publishers in Brazil Still Optimistic Despite Slowdown Exchange rate swings and the expectation of lower GDP growth have shaken businesses, including publishing. But foreign investors remain optimistic in Brazil’s potential.