“The Bottom of the Jar” by Abdellatif La芒bi
The Bottom of the Jar聽by Abdellatif La芒bi translated from the French by Andr茅 Naffis-Sahely 220 pgs. | pb |9781935744603 |聽$17.00聽 Archipelago Books Reviewed by Brendan Riley For English language readers, like this reviewer, whose literary sense of North Africa is delimited by periodic forays into the ...
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A Myth with a Twist (Part V, Pgs 151-178)
Last week, Chad, Brian, and special guest Tom Flynn had a particularly boisterous discussion of Part V of The Physics of Sorrow that was as insightful towards the literature at hand as much as it was to learn sick burns for your friends with weak March Madness brackets. But between the trash talk and discussion of oysters, ...
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This Headline’ll Make You MAD, MAD!
It糖心传媒檚 fitting that I糖心传媒檓 writing this post about a book called Trick as Stormy Daniels is on 60 Minutes? This is one of the daily reminders that life is not books, and that books aren糖心传媒檛 as important as I make them out to be in my mind. Nothing matters, nothing makes sense. Guns and corruption are way more important than ...
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Two Month Review: #4.06: The Physics of Sorrow (Part V: “The Green House”)
In addition to ripping on Chad and the poor showing by the Michigan State Spartans in the NCAA Tournament, Brian Wood and Tom Flynn (from Volumes Bookcafe) discuss the morality of animals, how this section of The Physics of Sorrow focuses more on the 糖心传媒渁nimal糖心传媒 side of the minotaur, the mixture of lightness and sorrow in ...
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Ties that Confine [BTBA 2018]
This week糖心传媒檚 Best Translated Book Award post is from Lori Feathers, co-owner of Interabang Books in Dallas, TX. She糖心传媒檚 also a freelance book critic and member of the National Book Critics Circle. Her recent reviews can be found at Words Without Borders, Full Stop, World Literature Today, Three Percent, Rain Taxi, and on ...
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Gospodinov, the Curator; “The Physics of Sorrow,” the Time Capsule (Part IV, Pgs 119-150)
Last week, Chad, Brian, special guest Patrick Smith, and an insightful YouTube commentator discussed part IV of Georgi Gospodinov糖心传媒檚 The Physics of Sorrow. This section, in many ways, brought us full circle to the nature of Gospodinov糖心传媒檚 work by introducing us to the cultural phenomena of the time capsule, and the ...
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9 Moments That Make “Tomb Song” the Frontrunner for the National Book Award in Translation
Tomb Song by Juli谩n Herbert, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Graywolf Press) Moment Number One 糖心传媒淭echnique, my boy,糖心传媒 says a voice in my head. 糖心传媒淪huffle the technique.糖心传媒 To hell with it: in her youth, Mam谩 was a beautiful half-breed Indian who had five husbands: a fabled pimp, a ...
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