It always seems more real once it has become virtual: After won’t be out until April 9, but it has its own page now at Amazon. I can’t say whether […] Read more ...

What an honor and pleasure it was to be on the jury for this year’s National Book Award for Translated Literature. Our unanimous choice was Stênio Gardel’s The Words That […] 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 ...

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 ...