Maritime Reading

A Conversation with Carsten Jensen
Maritime Reading List
PHOTO GALLERY: Marstal Maritime Museum Photos
EXCERPT: Vi sejlede bare (2009; We just sailed) by Carsten Jensen
POETRY: "The Castaway"by Alessio Zanelli

READING LIST: Eight Maritime Fiction Recommendations

The current issue of WLT features an interview with Danish writer Carsten Jensen, author of the maritime novel We, the Drowned. Here is a list of recommended maritime fiction by the editors at WLT.  

1.The Sharks by Jens Bjorneboe
Jens Bjørneboe, The Sharks, tr. Esther Greenleaf Mürer (Norvik, 1992)

2.The Norton Book of the Sea, John O. Coote
John O. Coote, ed., The Norton Book of the Sea, 2 vols. (W. W. Norton, 1989–93)

3.The Lost Sailors by Jean-Claude Izzo
Jean-Claude Izzo, The Lost Sailors, tr. Howard Curtis (Europa, 2007)

4.Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab’s Wife (Harper Perennial, 2000)

5.Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series from Master and Commander (Lippincott, 1969) through The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (W. W. Norton, 2004)

6.The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table (Knopf, 2011) (forthcoming in August)

7.Maritime Fiction by John Peck
John Peck, Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)

8.The Sea Hawk Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini Captain Blood Returns, Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini, The Sea-Hawk (Grosset & Dunlap, 1924), Captain Blood (Penguin, 1922), Captain Blood Returns (Houghton Mifflin, 1931), and The Fortunes of Captain Blood (Houghton Mifflin, 1936)

 

Current Issue
May 2011 Issue

May/June 2011

Featuring German-language crime fiction, women's soccer literature and a fascinating interview with Danish novelist Carsten Jensen.

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Table of Contents

SPECIAL SECTION: German Crime Writing
Guest edited by J. Madison Davis

  • Introduction, J. Madison Davis, guest editor
  • FICTION: Lisa Lercher, "Forty-three-year-old woman seeking..."
  • ESSAY: Beatrix Kramlovsky, "Show Your Face, oh Violence"
  • ESSAY: Almuth Heuner, "Germany's Crime and Mystery Scene"
  • FICTION: Nina George, "The Light in the West"
  • ESSAY: Hughes Schlueter, "The Grand Duchy Strikes Back"
  • ESSAY: Paul Ott, "Murder in the Alpenglow: Swiss Crime Writing in the German Language"
  • ESSAY: Thomas Przybilka, "A Resource for Lovers of Crime Writing: The Bonn Archive of Secondary Crime Writing Literature"

SPECIAL SECTION: World Cup/World Lit 2011
Guest edited by John Turnbull

  • Introduction, John Turnbull, guest editor
  • INTERVIEW: John Turnbull, "A Conversation with Nalinaksha Bhattacharya"
  • FICTION: Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, "Hem and Football" an excerpt
  • POETRY: Mona Nicole Sfeir, "Laws of the Game (adapted from FIFA 2010-11)"
  • INTERVIEW: Sandra Kingery, "A Conversation with Ana María Moix"
  • ESSAY: Jennifer Doyle, "Soccer, Art and Desire"
  • INTERVIEW: John Turnbull, "A Conversation with Elísabet Jökulsdóttir"
  • ESSAY: Clarice Lispector, "Armando Nogueira, Soccer, and Me (Poor Thing)"

EDITOR'S NOTE

LETTERS

NOTEBOOK

  • WLT Online Book Club: The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky
  • Author Profile: Jonas Hassen Khemiri
  • Czesław Miłosz Centennial
  • City Profile: Tallinn, Estonia

POETRY

  • Raquel Chalfi, "Double Exposure in the Black Forest"

Q&A: WLT INTERVIEWS

WEB EXCLUSIVES: MARITIME READING

WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW

OUTPOSTS: Norwich, Norfolk

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