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!
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Posts Tagged: The Story of My Teeth
The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa
Comedian Sara Benincasa opens up about her latest book Real Artists Have Day Jobs, adjusting to success, Venn-diagramming love, and the loss of Morley Safer.
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
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 […]
...moreThe 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 English over the last decade or so has had a profound effect on publishers. “The Story of My Teeth” takes part in this renaissance, but […]
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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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The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
Anita Felicelli reviews The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli today in Rumpus Books.
...moreValeria Luiselli’s Book Club at the Jumex Factory
To write her new novel, The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli got ongoing book club feedback from workers at the Jumex factory featured in the novel. Over at Broadly, Luiselli talks to Lauren Oyler about her process, a childhood spent moving, and how to use—rather than abuse—the personal in essays: I think that maybe […]
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The Highest Bidder
Valeria Luiselli previews The Story of My Teeth for BOMB Magazine; among the dentures being optioned are G.K. Chesterton’s, Virginia Woolf’s, Charles Lamb’s, Rousseau’s, and the fangs of Mr. Montaigne.
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