“Sergio Chejfec is surely one of the most intelligent and precise of contemporary writers, and Open Letter has made an important artistic choice in introducing him to a new audience. . . . One of the novel’s strengths is the painterly quality with which Chejfec percipiently arranges this minimal plot sequence in lines of prose. . . . It is as though the narrator is traveling through a landscape of memory, of what is both remembered and, more importantly, what cannot be remembered.” . . .

Dubravka Ugresic’s Karaoke Culture, a collection of essays published by Open Letter, was named on Saturday as a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. “To have one of our books selected as a NBCC Award finalist—one of the most prestigious honors in U.S. publishing—brings real validation to us here at Open Letter . . .”

“Ugresic returns with a brilliant collection of timely essays. . . . Ugresic moves nimbly from karaoke to Communism, from IKEA to the symbolism of insects in literature, providing smart and witty cultural insight alongside Eastern European history.” . . .