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Over the past week I could feel myself slowing down, hesitating to pick back up Alvin Lu’s Daydreamers. Not because of disinterest but because I didn’t want it to end. I wanted to savor it. At its core Daydreamers is… more ›
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Since there’s no real literary news today I wanted to share a bit from a book proposal I’m putting together for my translation of Mirosław Nahacz’s 2003 novel Eight Four. The numbers in the title correspond to the year the… more ›
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I Know What You Did Summer Before Last I Know What You Did A Couple Of Summers Ago I Know What You Did That One Summer Long Ago I Know What You Did Last Autumn I Know What You Did… more ›
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At some point near the beginning of 2025 I decided that I’d try to get through as many epics as I could, though I didn’t spend much time defining what I meant by epic. Is it something ancient and narrative?… more ›
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In August I had a short-term research fellowship from the New York Public Library. I spent nine days in New York City working in their Slavic and East European Collections, looking at anything by or about or tangentially related to… more ›
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In 1972 American voters overwhelmingly reelected Richard Nixon. That election remains one of the biggest, most decisive landslide victories in US history. Nixon garnered 520 electoral votes to Democrat candidate George McGovern’s 17. The popular vote, which maybe makes more… more ›
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A couple of weeks ago I commemorated a girl who died in a car accident forty years ago when she was ten years old. We were friends. The car was driven by her older sister, who was also my friend.… more ›