Welcome! I have wanted to have my own site for quite a while, so I’m giving it a try. The theme will eventually change and links may or may not work right now. My tags/categories did not transfer quite like I wanted, so I’ll be working on getting those updated. I’m sure there are other […]
Author: Dwight
St. John’s College brochure for their Summer Classics program came today and there are several tempting seminars I’d love to take. They should update their information page to reflect this year’s program (The Examined Life) in the next few days so you can see in detail what they will cover. It looks like there will […]
Undula by Bruno Schulz Translation and Afterword by Frank Garrett Seattle: Sublunary Editions, 2020 Paperback, 42 pages Time trickles with the kerosene lamp’s faint hissing. Old equipemnt rattles and creaks in the silence. Besides me in the depths of the room there are the shadows, pointy, crooked in shard, who skulk and cheme. They stretch […]
In January 2021, Dædalus became an Open Access journal. The editors of Dædalus thank you for your patience while they work to digitize the back catalog. The current edition of the quarterly journal Dædalus is available online, and as you can see from the above quote from their “About” page they are working to make […]
It has been a busy year, so I’ll take this opportunity to apologize for staying mostly silent. We have been incredibly fortunate and blessed this year in spite of everything that 2020 managed to throw at the world. What could be called my ‘workload’ multiplied this year with caretaking a friend’s property, but it has […]
Radio Prague International named Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud a Solitude one of its Czech Books You Must Read. It’s an insightful and informative post that I highly recommend. Here’s a comment about the book from Esther Peters, Associate Director of the Center for East European and Russian Studies at the University of Chicago: “The world […]
I’m sure most people have seen the news that New York Review Books will release William Gaddis’ first two novels, The Recognitions and J R, this fall. From the Publishers Weekly article: NYRB editor Edwin Frank, asked why the press planned to republish what he called Gaddis’s “two showstopper doorstoppers,” said that the answer was […]
Vasily Grossman, with mother and daughter Katya Picture sourceFrom Robert Chandler’s Facebook page earlier today: A few minutes ago I received the sad news of the death of Yekaterina Vasilievna Korotkova-Grossman, the daughter of Vasily Grossman. She was someone unusually sensitive, perceptive and witty. We got on well from our very first meeting and I […]
Happy anniversary to this tweet! It couldn’t have been me judging from where Mr. Gay lives and writes. Not to mention I don’t like coffee and never drink it. I’m sure, though, I have engendered the same respone from others in coffeeshops that I have patronized for other caffeine delivery methods. Well, all that plus […]
I was extremely sad to see a post from hlo.hu on the passing of Tim Wilkinson, “One of Hungarian literature’s most prominent translators, known best for his work with Imre Kertész and Miklós Szentkuthy.” I’ve read quite a few books translated by him and have posted on some of them. Wilkinson translated many academic books, […]