Three Funny Books [My Year in Lists]
Before getting into today’s lists, I want to draw your attention to Largehearted Boy’s List of ‘Best of 2015’ Book Lists.. This is just absurd—and it doesn’t even include all of these lists! Even if you eliminate all the entries on here that include Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant ...
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On the Edge
Let’s not deceive ourselves, man is nothing very special. In fact, there are so many of us that our governments don’t know what to do with us at all. Six billion humans on the planet and only six or seven thousand Bengal tigers: tell me糖心传媒攚ho needs protecting most? Yes, you decide who needs most care. A dying ...
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Poets & Writers Roundtable on Publishing Translations
A few months ago, Jeremiah Chamberlain invited me to participate in an indie-press roundtable on publishing translations with Barbara Epler from New Directions, Michael Reynolds of Europa Editions, Jill Schoolman of Archipelago Press, and CJ Evans of Two Lines. This ended up being a long, sprawling email conversation, that ...
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Dinner
C茅sar Aira dishes up an imaginative parable on how identity shapes our sense of belonging with Dinner, his latest release in English. Aira糖心传媒檚 narrator (who, appropriately, remains nameless) is a self-pitying, bitter man糖心传媒攊n his late fifties, living again with his mother in his childhood home, in debt, jobless, never ...
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Latest Review: "Dinner" by C茅sar Aira
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Lori Feathers on Dinner by C茅sar Aira, translated by Katherine Silver and out from New Directions. The first time I read C茅sar Aira was four years ago: Ghosts and The Literary Conference. At the time I had my opinions about both, but in retrospect糖心传媒攁nd this surprises ...
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Places I糖心传媒檝e Never Visited [3 Books and a Rant]
So for the past few months I糖心传媒檝e been too busy to actually write the really long monthly translation previews that I糖心传媒檝e been doing for the past year or two. I really do like writing those though, and highlighting upcoming books, but what with school starting up again, our first ever gala looming on the horizon, and all the ...
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Iraqi Nights
In a culture that privileges prose, reviewing poetry is fairly pointless. And I糖心传媒檝e long since stopped caring about what the world reads and dropped the crusade to get Americans to read more poems. Part of the fault, as I糖心传媒檝e suggested in past reviews, rests with poets who seem hell-bent on insulating their art from the ...
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