Yawning vs. Not Reading: Americans and Translations a Decade Apart

By Chad Post | February 4th, 2015 | Articles | 0 Comment

This morning, the Daily Beast ran a piece by Bill Morris entitled Why Americans Don’t Read Foreign Fiction. It starts with Morris admitting his ignorance of Patrick Modiano’s work prior to his winning the Nobel Prize, then goes into a reading of Modiano’s Suspected Sentences, before veering into the ...