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Reviving Dominican Literature with “a Concert of Poetry”

Global Voices introduces us to El Hombrecito, a music group that interweaves Dominican poetry and visual art into their performances, in a story written by Natali Herrera Pacheco and translated…

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The Rumpus Interview with Will Evans

Will Evans, Executive Director of Deep Vellum Publishing, talks about publishing translated works as well as the Texas and Dallas literary scene he wants to help grow.

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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Jesse Lee Kercheval

I have learned to put myself, my ego, to one side and truly experience someone else’s poetry.

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The Rumpus Review of Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra

But the problem of making fiction is just one of the many problems a reborn country must figure out.

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This Week in Short Fiction

This week at Recommended Reading, PEN America offers an excerpt from Brazilian author Noemi Jaffe’s novel Írisz: as orquídeas, which is remarkable for many reasons, one of them being that this…

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Vanessa Blakeslee

I don’t want to waste readers’ time with a several hundred-page novel that’s not relevant to the wicked problems we’re facing today.

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The New Teeth of Mexican Literature

While reviewing Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aaron Bady considers the rise of Mexican literature post-Roberto Bolaño: Roberto Bolaño’s popularity in…

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How to Get More Lit By Cuban Authors on US Campuses

It’s a bear to try to get contemporary Cuban literature, especially by women. To remedy the dearth of books written by female Cuban authors on American campuses, Sara Cooper, a…

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Powerhouse Spanish Literary Agent Remembered

The New Yorker has a retrospective on Carmen Balcells, a Spanish literary agent who brought writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Jorge Luis Borges to international fame. Balcells…

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Real, Local, Radical

A must-read profile of Sesshu Foster, unofficial poet laureate of East Los Angeles, steadfast advocate of racial equity, eloquent witness to the changes of gentrification, full-time school teacher, and arguable…

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The Kind of Madness That Is Passion

She couldn’t remember the last time she’d been alone with herself. Maybe never. It was always her–with others, and in these others she was reflected and the others were reflected…

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Lispector Revival

We’ve noticed a new wave of love for Clarice Lispector recently, and so has Benjamin Anastas at The New Republic. With the new translation and release of a complete edition of…

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