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“Spanning continents and cultures, Voice From the Planet taps into an unacknow-ledged psyche – our literary world. An incongruous, gorgeous, eclectic mêlée that will open your eyes and mind to the huge potential amongst international authors.” — The Truth about Books/Book of the Month Award
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PRESS RELEASE: 4/11/23 Contact: [email protected]
Globe-trotting anthology earns Book of the Month nod from Brit Lit Review
British Reviewer The Truth about Books voted Planet BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Spanning continents and cultures, Voice From the Planet taps into an unacknowledged psyche – our liter-ary world. An incongruous, gorgeous, eclectic mêlée that will open your eyes and mind to the huge potential amongst international authors.”
— The Truth about Books
5.0 out of 5 stars: “A grand variety pack of tales, Charles Degelman puts together a fascinating collec-tion that will never stop entertaining. Voice from the Planet is a solid volume, not to be missed.
— Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
"... offers wit, beauty, suspense, and an array of diverse and curious experiences . . . .an expedition of discovery of authors from various parts of the world..."
S.J.Wilson, Amazon Reviews
Release Date: October 1st, 2010Fiction/LiteratureISBN 978-0615367323U.S.A. $14.95, Europe €14.95, UK ₤8.33Trade paperback 6 x 9 inches, 428 pgs.
Copyright © 2010 Harvard Square Editions (HSE), Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions www.harvardsquareeditions.orgVideo of PARIS BOOK LAUNCHhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EevUEEJH3GQ
Welcome to Harvard Square Editions’ second short-fiction anthology, Voice from the Planet, a dra-matic new approach to publishing. We invite you to wander on a globe-trotting literary adventure through an exciting new world of living fiction.
Experience the trauma of an African earthquake and catch a lush glimpse of love in the jungles of Peru. Explore fire dancing in the mountains of Bulgaria, revisit the American rebellions of the 1960s, and ascend the dizzying world of pre-9/11 high finance.
Planet’s voices are varied and unique, featuring award-winning and new authors from Congo, China, Peru, the United States, Bulgaria, Belgium, Canada, Brazil, Scotland, Finland, and England.
Voice from the Planet is published by Harvard Square Editions, a new, independent press that grew out of a discussion group on the Harvard University web site. Award-winning author and editor
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PRESS RELEASE: 4/11/23 Contact: [email protected]
Globe-trotting anthology earns Book of the Month nod from Brit Lit Review
Charles Degelman has gathered this multinational short fiction collection with authors and publish-ers donating net proceeds to the Nobel Prize-winning charity Doctors Without Borders.
Most of the creators of Voice from the Planet have never met. Communicating via e-mail and the Internet, we cast about for new work from far-flung and gifted writers, defined common ground, and improvised new digital and multi-lingual editing techniques to create the volume you are hold-ing in your hands.
Living fictionFor centuries, much of world literature has been published within particular cultural, national, or re-gional boundaries. The results are varied but often reinforced. For example, national interests limit most major English-language book prizes: the Pulitzer Prize for fiction goes strictly to American authors, preferably ones writing about American life; the Orange Prize is limited to U.K. authors; and only Commonwealth Country citizens are eligible for the Man Booker Prize.
Conversely, a rich canon of international literature has long been denied to many English-speaking readers, because the possibility of disseminating new writing across cultural, national, and language barriers was limited by geographical isolation, cultural centrism, and now-obsolete technology.
Enter the Information Age — the cyber apocalypse, a communication revolution. The publishers and authors involved in Voice from the Planet have set about to change all that by interacting via the world wide web in an effort to bring you a new fiction without borders, a contemporary, living fiction.
The cyber revolution has played an unprecedented part in the process, with authors and editors sending and downloading manuscripts, translations, and editors’ notes and revisions across oceans and continents, transactions that would have previously taken weeks or months to complete.
Join us in disseminating this intercontinental literature, a living fiction that uses new media to en-able authors, readers, and publishers alike to create and share contemporary literature that reflects today's rapidly changing planet.
Readers, reviewers, and critics can take part in Harvard Square Editions’ living fiction dialogue by commenting on Voice from the Planet stories using the authors’ digital contact information printed at the end each story (Please see contact information below.) or chatting on the web at www.harvardsquareeditions.org.
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PRESS RELEASE: 4/11/23 Contact: [email protected]
Globe-trotting anthology earns Book of the Month nod from Brit Lit Review
Harvard Square Editions’ authors and publishers donate net proceeds from Voice from the Planet to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Fron - tières (MSF), an international medical humanitar-ian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from healthcare, or natural disasters. MSF provides in-dependent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inade-quacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. www.doctorswithoutborders.org
All Reviews:
The Truth About Books, British literary magazinehttp://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/book_review/various/voice_from_the_planet.html See upper right: http://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/home.html?PHPSESSID=0b55cfa94d17ea6b6c4cfe68d684ad0c
Midwest Review ½- way down the Amazon page at: http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Planet-Charles-Degelman/dp/0615367321/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1287398944&sr=8-1
S. J. Wilsonhttp://www.amazon.com/review/R2RW1NPX09DQLL/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
Arizona State University Newshttp://asunews.asu.edu/20100930_anthology andhttp://asunews.asu.edu/20100527_fictionanthology
Latin Couver, Vancouver, B.C.http://latincouver.ca/home_page_articles/en/literature
LA Observed - Morning Buzz
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2010/10/morning_buzz_friday_10810.php
Out Smart Magazinehttp://outsmartmagazine.com/2010/10/voice-from-the-planet/
Blog: Laura Stegman, a well-known arts publicist in L.A.http://laurastegman.blogspot.com/
Baltimore Outloudhttp://baltimoreoutloud.com/lively-arts/between-the-covers/item/164-read-all-about-it-holiday-book-ideas
Wisconsin Gazettehttp://www.wisconsingazette.com/books/lgbt-fall-and-holiday-book-guide.html
The Bay Area Reporterhttp://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=588
Book Talks around the World:
A panel discussion with Charles Degelman and J. L. Morin on Voice from the Planet at the Village Voice Bookshop, 6 rue Princesse, 75006 Paris – 2010.
Vivien Jones reads from Voice from the Planet at the first weekend of the Wigtown Book Festival – fall 2010 in the Wigtown Ink Festival Yurt, Scotland, including a discussion about whether one writer can express another's memories, with Ann Shukman, who provided the original material for Vivien’s story in Voice from the Planet.
Moderated by former Member of European Parliament & founding member of the German Green Party Frank Schwalba-Hoth, and: J. L. Morin, Paul-Anthony Delor, and Ruben Varda discuss their writing at Waterstone’s Book Sellers, Boulevard Adolphe Maxlaan 71-75, B-1000 Brussels, Bel-gium Tel: +32 2 219 27 08 — November 11, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Book talk with Sean Elder, Hélène Valentina de Portu, and Paula Brancato on Saturday, October 30 at 3 p.m. Unnameable Books is 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11238, Tel. 718-789-1534, [email protected]
Book talk with Eitan Olevsky and Lauren Handman in Vancouver, BC. Mid-October.
Author contact info:
Democratic Republic of Congo: Paul-Anthony Delor [email protected] Angeles: Diane Haithman [email protected]: Ruben Varda [email protected] Angeles: Charles Degelman [email protected] York: Sean Elder [email protected] York: Teresa Hsiao [email protected] Angeles: Dan Loughry [email protected] Angeles: Susan Lindheim [email protected]: Joel Willans [email protected], B.C.: Eitan Olevsky [email protected]: J. L. Morin [email protected]: Maria Pavlova [email protected]: Alisa Clements [email protected], Arizona: Jay Boyer [email protected]: Vivien Jones [email protected]: Sharon Dilworth [email protected] Kingdom: Ben Cheetham [email protected], Massachusetts: D.E. Tingle [email protected], Texas: B. R. Bonner [email protected], Texas: Joanne Groshardt [email protected]: Dave Woods [email protected]: Andrew Binks [email protected] Los Angeles: Ben Mattlin [email protected] York: Helene Valentina de Portu [email protected] York: Wickham Boyle [email protected] Francisco: David Landau [email protected] York: Paula Brancato [email protected]: Kalman Applbaum [email protected], B.C.: Lauren Handman [email protected] Coast, California: Walter E. Gourlay [email protected]
Distributors:
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International
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