Amanda Michalopoulou's Reading Tour [All the April Events, Part I]
Amanda Michalopoulou’s second novel to appear in English, the brilliantly titled Why I Killed My Best Friend, doesn’t officially come out until May 20th, but we released it a couple months early for her cross-country tour. The book details the lifelong ups-and-downs of two best friends who meet in grade ...
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How to Become a Pessimist [Some April 2014 Translations]
Every semester I tell my publishing students about the time I was walking around BEA with Jerome Kramer and he pointed out how the whole fair was “filled with failure.” Mostly I want to shock and break them—every good professor needs to upend his/her student’s expectations and their latent belief that ...
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A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, Trans. by Juliet Winters Carpenter -Why This Book Should Win
Ariel Starling is a writer and student of literature in Paris. Written largely as a story-within-a-story-within-a-story, the obvious image at hand for A True Novel’s structure is that of the Russian matryoshka doll. But perhaps a better metaphor would be an origami crane, for reasons as aesthetic as cultural. ...
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Stalin is Dead
Stalin is Dead by Rachel Shihor has been repeatedly described as kafkaesque, which strikes a chord in many individuals, causing them to run to the bookstore in the middle of the night to be consumed by surreal situations that no one really experiences in their day-to-day life. After reading Stalin is Dead, I was troubled by ...
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McNally Jackson: Reading with Carlos Labbé
Join McNally Jackson tonight at 7 P.M. for a reading and conversation with Carlos Labbé on the English translation of his Navidad & Matanza. The event is open and free to the public. The McNally Jackson store is located at 52 Prince St., New York, NY ...
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Paradises
Paradises by cult Argentinian author Iosi Havilio is the continuation of his earlier novel, Open Door, and tells the story of our narrator, a young, unnamed Argentinian woman. The very first sentence in Paradises echoes the opening of Camus’s The Outsider and prepares us for the struggles and alienation that are to ...
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A Showcase of Literary Translation
THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE. If you’re in the greater Rochester area tonight, come on by to the University of Rochester Rush Rees Library at 5 P.M. in the Welles-Brown room for a literary translation death-match throwdown extravaganza! So not really that last bit, but come hear the 2013-2014 MA in ...
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