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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...