Marie Kondo’s Contributions to the Reception History of Jane Austen
Anyone interested in Jane Austen’s earliest readers and reception owes a debt to organizational expert Marie Kondo. Cheap 19th-century reprints ...The post Marie Kondo’s Contributions to the Reception...
View ArticleA Vision of 2023: Talking with Mark Alpert
Mark Alpert, a former editor at Scientific American, packs his page-turners with accurate scientific detail. The Coming Storm is his ...The post A Vision of 2023: Talking with Mark Alpert appeared...
View ArticleN. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn and Settler Colonial Language
In 1969, N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, helping usher in the Native ...The post N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn and Settler Colonial Language appeared...
View ArticleA Conversation between Lucinda Rosenfeld and Rachel Cline
Lucinda Rosenfeld is the author of five novels, most recently Class (2017). Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, N+1, and ...The post A Conversation between Lucinda Rosenfeld and Rachel Cline...
View ArticleFantasy Girls
This essay grew out of two quotidian sources: a pattern I noticed on Twitter, and a dream. The pattern was ...The post Fantasy Girls appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleNew Spells for the Future: A Conversation with Ben Okri
While in Perth, Australia for the Perth Writers Week, Ben Okri and I caught up over a lunch of spatchcock ...The post New Spells for the Future: A Conversation with Ben Okri appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleLittle No-action Movie: On Pico Iyer’s Autumn Light
It has been 28 years since Pico Iyer wrote The Lady and the Monk, he being the “monk” and the ...The post Little No-action Movie: On Pico Iyer’s Autumn Light appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleA Space Where Past, Present, and Future Come Together: Ebony Flowers on Hot Comb
Ebony Flowers’s debut graphic novel Hot Comb is an exploration of the black feminine experience via hair. In a Proustian ...The post A Space Where Past, Present, and Future Come Together: Ebony Flowers...
View ArticleAn Excerpt from Blackfishing the IUD by Caren Beilin, Published by Wolfman...
Wolfman Books is excited to preview below an excerpt from our forthcoming memoir, Blackfishing the IUD (October 2019), by Caren ...The post An Excerpt from Blackfishing the IUD by Caren Beilin,...
View ArticleFor the Love of Wisdom: Climate Change and the Revenge of History
In the spring of 2019 Tony Greco sat down with Todd Dufresne to discuss Dufresne’s new book The Democracy of ...The post For the Love of Wisdom: Climate Change and the Revenge of History appeared first...
View ArticleThe Prides and Prejudices of Book Collecting
Meet Twin A and Twin B of Jane Austen books. One twin stayed home and became famous while the other ...The post The Prides and Prejudices of Book Collecting appeared first on BLARB.
View Article“The Psalms aren’t mentioned, but they’re there”: Talking with Jonathan Blum
I met Jonathan Blum at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1996. We sat next to each other in literary seminars ...The post “The Psalms aren’t mentioned, but they’re there”: Talking with Jonathan Blum...
View ArticleConstance Garnett: A Heroic Translator
In the midst of Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age, Sara ...The post Constance Garnett: A Heroic Translator appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleFilling the Gaps: On Translating Miloš Crnjanski’s Novel of London
From April 2018 through September 2019 I translated A Novel of London (1971), a classic of European modernism that established ...The post Filling the Gaps: On Translating Miloš Crnjanski’s Novel of...
View ArticleAn Aveyron of the Mind
When my partner Enzio di Kiipt and I began work on the Averoigne project, our founding imperative was — and still is ...The post An Aveyron of the Mind appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleRefugee Literature in the Age of the “Global Migrant Crisis”
As a junior faculty member with a Humanities appointment, and especially as one who studies migration, it feels like I ...The post Refugee Literature in the Age of the “Global Migrant Crisis” appeared...
View Article“We’ll buy you a harpoon, Lydia”: How Arthur Miller Adapted Jane Austen’s...
It is a truth universally unacknowledged that American playwright Arthur Miller adapted Pride and Prejudice in 1945. In the Theatre ...The post “We’ll buy you a harpoon, Lydia”: How Arthur Miller...
View ArticleAn Odyssey Through Central Asia: Erika Fatland’s Sovietistan
Erika Fatland’s Sovietistan is an odyssey through Central Asia, the distant terra incognito that, despite its ancient history, colorful customs, ...The post An Odyssey Through Central Asia: Erika...
View ArticleEl Misterio Nadal: A Lost and Rescued Book by Roberto Bolaño
My copy of El Misterio Nadal reached me by post, inscribed with a “best wishes” and signed “A.B.” A few ...The post El Misterio Nadal: A Lost and Rescued Book by Roberto Bolaño appeared first on BLARB.
View ArticleFive Griefs: A Review of Orange by E. Briskin
Most real-life stories have no true beginning or ending. They are all middle. Other stories weave in and out of ...The post Five Griefs: A Review of Orange by E. Briskin appeared first on BLARB.
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