Category: reading
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The very few books I was able to read in 2016. Maybe the first two don’t really count: the first is the Polish text for my translation, which is the… more ›
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“Beauty is just as vapid as its distinctions.” The recent translation of Anne Garréta’s Sphinx, translated by Emma Ramadan and published by Deep Vellum, has got me thinking about apophasis,… more ›
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What is meant as a valiant stand against the decline of reading is actually a symptom of it, and then a cause. The fear of dumbing down leads to thinning… more ›
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WritingThe irony is that in the year that I’ve written the most, I’ve blogged the least. You would think that writing is writing, and that one kind of writing would… more ›
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This spring I read the collection of short stories entitled The Cannibal Night by Mexican author Luis Jorge Boone, expertly translated by George Henson. These stories reminded me about what… more ›
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I read a really interesting and meaningful book recently: Mark Fritz’s Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World. Even though the majority of the people in the text were… more ›