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What I’m reading (January)
La Virgen Cabeza, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (what a great name, no?). One of the writers who leapt to mind for her when I asked Angélica Gorodsicher last October, “who else should I read?” A striking, unexpected voice, just enough left unexplained, left for the reader to assemble. Fast moving, abrasive yet sympathetic. And having […]
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What I’m Reading (mid-April)
April is the month of deadlines, of personnel reviews, of conference papers coming due, all of which a good book to come home to of an evening all the more important, even if I find myself reading in ten- or twelve-minute bursts. What I’m now reading, or what I just finished: Angélica Gorodischer’s Fábula de […]
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Translation Notes with Necessary Fiction
Regular readers of this (irregular) blog know I spend a good deal of my time thinking and writing and reading about translation. Today the web journal Necessary Fiction featured my contribution to their “Translation Notes” series, “Empurpled and Bedamasked: Reading through Trafalgar.” I’ve been enjoying the series since it began– very pleased to be in […]