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a new essay collection has been translated into german by siri hustvedt (the original is called 'being a man), probably very different from What I loved, but most likely just as beautiful in its voice. her husband, whose work i much admire also is celebrating his 60th birthday today. interview here about the relationship to readership, the invention of solitude and The Invention of Solitude (highly recommended) and the creation of and living together with fictional characters. if you need something funny, fast-paced and full of loveable and hateable characters, i warmly recommend lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. for those of you who do not read fiction, something less fictional reviewed here. good news for today: only 180 days to wait for the reapparition of the most famous wizard of the 21st century and the resolution of remaining mysteries regarding hogwarts....