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First paragraph: Until early this year, an individual interested in, or professionally involved with, the twenty-first-century world of books could travel the globe incessantly, attending book fairs, writers’ festivals, and readers’ conventions. Our roving reader, writer, publisher, or other agent in the communications circuit of the book is a literary Carmen Sandiego, darting from country to country, crossing genres, finding herself at a festival on a ferry, a canal boat, or a train. Occasio...

While there are multiple approaches to researching cultural events, predominant academic frames tend to be either sociological or situated within a creative industries discourse. Neither of these approaches have supported sustained engagement with individual, interior experience at book festivals. Creative writers have imaginatively depicted these sites of author-reader interaction, and developing scholarship focuses on autoethnography and the phenomenological. In this article, we extend and ...

Este artículo analiza la interpretación ad hoc en un contexto de colonialidad multilingüe desde perspectivas sociolingüísticas y etnográficas. Se centra sobre la mediación lingüística-cultural que realizan rutinariamente dirigentas bilingües de Ayacucho y Puno para facilitar la comunicación entre miembros de sus comunidades (hablantes de quechua y aimara) y los/las funcionarios/as estatales (por lo general, hablantes monolingües de castellano). A diferencia de los/las traductores/as e intérpr...

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this book, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017-2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The book argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports a...