Category: Galápagos

  • 11 Odd Things Learned in the Course of Translation

    –tidbits picked up in translating Beyond the Islands (Alicia Yánez Cossío) and Trafalgar (Angélica Gorodischer)– Some days, translation is like a treasure hunt, a sanctioned scavenge after curious words and unfamiliar allusions. (Happily, I’m a fan of dictionaries and reference books; my dictionary stand is a prized possession.) When the project’s finished, some of those definitions and…

  • Family Business/Sharing Books

    Winter’s Hill Vineyard UNO Press Last week, visiting my family’s winery, one of the wonderful women who often works special events there told me she’d bought a copy of Beyond the Islands for a friend of hers who would be diving in the Galápagos. What should she tell her friend about the book? Pirates, I…

  • Reading at Winter’s Hill

    This weekend, we celebrated the 2nd annual Wine and Word tasting at Winter’s Hill Vineyard. I wrote about last year’s reading here, and the pairing of wine–or food–with texts. It’s natural, I think, to bring them together; say what you will about eating only at a table with cutlery and dishes, sipping while reading (or…