The Turkish government confiscated all available copies of Jonathan Ames’ novel The Extra Man last week, and will try both his translator, Fatih Ozguven, and his publisher in Istanbul, Iletisim, on charges that the book is “corrupt and harmful to the morality of Turkish readers,” according to a fax Ames’ international rights agent Rosalie Siegel received from Istanbul. The book had been out a few months, and had been submitted to government censors for approval before publishing, as is required in Turkey. – New York Press