In Memoriam: Translator Daniel Weissbort
In 2012, I wrote an obituary over at The Millions for famed literary translator (and champion of literary translation) Michael Henry Heim. I just learned…
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I’m doing a reading in DC this Sunday
I'll be at Bloombars in Columbia Heights this Sunday from 3-5pm, as part of the PERFORMETRY series, doing my first reading since I moved back…
Yardenne Greenspan on Translation and Foreign-ness
My dear friend Yardenne Greenspan just had her translation of Israeli fiction published by New Vessel Press last week (congrats!). World Literature Today ran an…
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Gorgeous Illustrations from Soviet Children’s Lit
Via The Paris Review: "Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children’s Literature 1920–35: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times is a stunning compendium of illustrations from the twenties and…
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Our Soviet Grandmothers and Our Love of Russian Words
Just read a lovely experimental essay about immigrant identity and longing. It's a piece by Anna Prushinskaya up at The Millions. An excerpt: I set alarms to call…
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Soviet Toilet Paper Revolutionaries
Remember my profile of Pat Singer, a community leader in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach? She talked about the shock she experienced upon the arrival of all…
Russian Roller-Coaster at VICE.com
My translation of this wonderfully crazy short story by Andrei Krasnyashykh was just published at VICE magazine, as part of their ongoing VICE Reader…
DANIIL KHARMS: The Blue Notebook
Ack. I love Daniil Kharms, especially when he's translated by Matvei Yankelevich. There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn't…
(the one)(the only)
On a panel about memoir at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference this past March, Stephen Elliott loosely quoted Michelangelo: I…
Emily Gould on the writing life
Love this reflection on work, life, writing and optimism from Emily Gould: Last weekend I talked to a friend who has a books-related job. This…
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