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 ...

Interviewed re: SF at Rhino

My thanks to Naoko Fujimoto for asking me to talk about my translation of Chantal Montellier’s Social Fiction, thus giving me a chance to do my Jack Handey impression: One […] 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 ...

The review Social Fiction deserves

After an obtuse review in another pre-pub journal, Publishers Weekly has come through with a smart piece that gets this book and Montellier’s place in the history of French comics. […] Read more ...

Social Fiction available for pre-order

My translation of Chantal Montellier’s visionary Social Fiction — three politically charged sci-fi graphic novellas — is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Montellier, an early contributor to the legendary […] Read more ...