The Conversational Lexicon, an Oslo bookshop’s fundraising encyclopedia ‘freed from factual accuracy’, has drawn starry international contributions
A “subjective encyclopedia”, described by its creators as a “freak of publishing nature” designed to save a struggling Norwegian bookshop from closure, has proved a hit after a host of well-known names including Jarvis Cocker, George Saunders and Jonathan Lethem contributed entries.
Written in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and English, The Conversational Lexicon was the brainchild of bookseller Pil Cappelen Smith and Andreas Cappelen and was a last-ditch bid to stop their Oslo shop, Cappelens Forslag, from closing. The plan has paid off: each print run of the work, first published in 2014, has sold out and the future of the bookshop secured. The latest edition has just gone on sale.
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