Hilary Plum
Writing nature: On Melanie Rae Thon’s “The Voice of the River”
In a recent interview, novelist Lance Olsen describes one of the endeavors of his just-released Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing: I spend one chapter talking about how conventional notions of characterization are essentially Freudian in nature in that they…
Performing justice
Last week I was one of many Americans who unwittingly clicked through to the “new” Bank of America website and was, for a moment, completely taken in. “Dear Fellow American,” the website announces as one arrives at it, in a…
Literature and home
This past weekend I had the great pleasure of attending the 12th annual Juniper Literary Festival at UMass Amherst. A homecoming of sorts, since I received an MFA from UMass Amherst and, why not own up to it, a BA…
“When they rise, it’s as if they were already falling”: On Magdalena Tulli’s “Moving Parts”
Last week I wrote about this year’s Best Translated Book Award and noted a few concerns about the relative lack of women authors in translation. So why not use this post to celebrate one such author, the Polish writer Magdalena…
A year in translation
I’m late to point this out, but throughout March the always rich international-lit blog Three Percent has been running its “25 Days of the BTBA” series, in which it highlights the works of fiction that are long-listed for this year’s…
