To Start Again in a Different Place: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts
These are the terms Lahiri was trying to, seeking to find in Italian: this is her creed as a fiction writer.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Hope Campbell Gustafson
“I enjoy and do all of that research, and it must make the translation better.”
To Move Forward but Not Forget: Talking with Chloe Yelena Miller
Chloe Yelena Miller discusses her debut full-length poetry collection, VIABLE.
The Supplicant Undertaker
Is it too much to ask: a girl to want her father to keep his feet firmly in the soil of the living?
Color Is a Language in Itself: Mahtem Shiferraw Discusses Fuchsia
Mahtem Shiferraw discusses her debut collection, Fuchsia, how she uses color to understand the world and to communicate, and why her work continually addresses displacement.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Raising A Feminist Son
I think about the birth of Mosley, and all of the dreams I already have for him at the ripe age of one. I know how I want him to see me—strong, smart, capable of anything and everything. This is how I want him to see all women, but me especially.
This Week in Indie Bookstores
Seattle readers apparently like to drink while browsing for books. 13 million Italians live in municipalities without a bookstore. The LA Times attempts to figure out what Amazon’s first store in…
High Fidelity: Anita Raja on Translation
The editors at Asymptote Journal certainly couldn’t have expected Elena Ferrante to be outed when they planned their October 2016 issue, which includes Rebecca Falkoff and Stiliana Milkova’s translation of…
From the Italian
The goal is to deliver something from another language into your own language so people will read it and like it. I think sometimes it’s forgotten that you have to…