Notable Online: 2/7–2/13
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Christina MacSweeney
What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2020
Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
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What to Read When You Want to Read Women in Translation
A list of books written by women, translated by women, and in many instances, both!
...moreNotable San Francisco: 3/28–4/3
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Verónica Gerber Bicecci and Christina MacSweeney
Author Verónica Gerber Bicecci and translator Christina MacSweeney discuss the novel, Empty Set.
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This week (or month) in short fiction (and poetry), it’s National Translation Month! Each September, the National Translation Month (NTM) initiative, started in 2013, celebrates literary works in translation and promotes cross-cultural readership with offerings of exciting new translations on its website. The selections are released throughout the month and so far include poetry from […]
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Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París
Salvatore Ruggiero reviews Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París today in Rumpus Books.
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It’s December, that magical time of year when newspapers and websites across the globe unveil their “Best of the Year” lists. Valeria Luiselli has been all over them with her innovative novel The Story of my Teeth, and lucky for us, this week Guernica gifted us a new Luiselli short story, “Shakespeare, New Mexico,” translated […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli talks about her new novel, The Story of My Teeth, working with a translator to publish her books in English, and how writing in weekly installments changed her process.
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