“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 ...
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“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...