Reading tonight in Cambridge MA
I’m looking forward to reading tonight at the Blacksmith House in Cambridge MA. I’ll be reading a mix of poems and translations, and joining me on the double bill will […] Read more ...
News
“Postcards from Komiksoj” on SF
The latest entry in “Postcards from Komiksoj,” Tobias Carroll‘s newsletter about comics and storytelling, is a terrific piece on Social Fiction. Here’s a taste: Social Fiction is a frequently chilling read, […] Read more ...
“The Secret of Lightness” in Frankfurt
Speaking of Six Memos: though I’ve never attended the Frankfurt Book Fair myself, one of my sentences, from my translation of that wonderful book, made a rather grand appearance last […] Read more ...
“Tuning In” in California Italian Studies
My essay “Tuning In: On Retranslating Quotations” just appeared in a cool special issue of California Italian Studies, edited by Lucia Re and Anna Botta. The issue is called Calvino’s […] Read more ...
Round-ups on the NBA finalists
Several places—including Publishers Weekly, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times—ran round-ups of all the finalists for all the different National Book Awards. As Publishers Weekly noted, a […] Read more ...
Cover reveal for Before Nightfall
Just saw they’ve posted a cover for Silvia Vecchini’s verse novel, Before Nightfall, which I recently translated from Italian for the NYRB Kids imprint. It looks good! Here’s a bit […] Read more ...
Laila Lalami reviews SF in The Nation
I’m so happy to see this terrific, thoughtful review of Montellier’s book by Lalami, who provides excellent context and analysis throughout. Here’s a snippet: The future that the French artist […] Read more ...
The New Yorker on our NBA Longlist
It’s a nice little write-up. As they note, the ten books on the list were originally published in seven different languages—specifically Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Arabic, Korean, and Dutch. I […] Read more ...
Joe McCulloch weighs in on SF at TCJ
Joe McCulloch, the editor of The Comics Journal and a long-time champion of Chantal Montellier’s work, has published an extremely smart piece about her that I urge everyone to read. […] Read more ...
More praise for Social Fiction on pub day
It’s publication day for my translation of Chantal Montellier’s amazing Social Fiction, her triple album of dystopic sci-fi comics from the late 70s and early 80s, which has been getting […] Read more ...