Jake Slovis is a writer and educator. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University-Newark and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses focused on visual narrative and composition. His work has appeared in The Millions, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere.
For the New Yorker, Vauhini Vara wonders if the Nobel Prize is necessary for foreign authors to be successful in the United States, as large publishing companies hesitate to release translated works…