So I’m a fan of The Atlantic in general. I like their politics, I like their writers and I like that they include poetry which fewer and fewer non-literary publications do with any seriousness. And generally I like their poets and the poems they select. But this month it struck me that it’s been some time since I’ve seen anything really surprising or new in their selection of poetry. Now, to be fair, they are not a poetry publication, and […]

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I finally, for the first time since quitting my day job in July to pursue a non-career in literary translation, got my Google Reader subscriptions down to 0. When I started this morning, it was somewhere around 360… I unsubscribed myself from some blogs, and in following links subscribed myself to some new ones. And found that the only way I could get through everything was by saving for later the wealth of intriguing reviews on The Quarterly Conversation. But […]

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Why not? Susan Harris, the brilliantly witty editor of Words Without Borders coined the phrase in an ongoing joke with the brilliant Chad Post, director of Open Letter Books, about how literary translators in large part tend to be on the shorter side. We all agree this is brilliant. Susan has cast our collective stature in a more positive light with the addition of “alluring” and thus it is that alluringly short comes into being. While I have always aspired […]

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