Renata Adler’s “Letter from Selma”, about the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, is available at The New Yorker. The real magicians of Latin America looks at Machado de Assis and “the publication by Dalkey Archive Presshttps://dalkeyarchive.store/products/selected-stories?_pos=1&_psq=machado&_ss=e&_v=1.0 [scheduled for March] of a book simply titled Stories, which contains 13 of Machado’s stories, 10 […]
Tag: The Light and the Dark
I posted my initial impressions on the event with Mikhail Shishkin and Marian Schwartz presented by the Center for the Art of Translation that same evening, but have waited to post any of my transcriptions from the event. The Center has a podcast available of the audio on their blog: Two Voices: Mikhail Shishkin and […]
The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin Translation by Andrew Bromfield London: Quercus (2013) A moment came when I sensed the connection very intensely: This frozen cosmic void that I simply couldn’t drag myself out of could only be filled by that miraculous humming, rustling, booming, swelling tidal wave of words. It turned out […]
Mikhail Shishkin signing a copy of Maidenhair (sorry for the poor lighting)I wanted to post an initial impression on tonight’s event “Mikhail Shishkin’s Amazing Maidenhair” before I went to bed. I plan to post more about the event…maybe an extended post with a transcription. I thoroughly enjoyed the event and it turned out to be […]