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Catch Me Live

By mbs | Published: October 7, 2010

I’m excited about two speaking dates I have coming up later this month. On Monday, October 26th, I’ll be giving a Russian Science Fiction Reading at Swarthmore College, reading from my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017. For time and location, click here. Later that same week, on Thursday, October 28th, I’ll be giving the 12th [...]

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Russian Science Fiction Reading at Swarthmore

By mbs | Published: September 14, 2010

If you happen to be in Philadelphia next month, please join me on October 25 at Swarthmore College when I do a reading, presented by the Russian section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, from my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s novel, 2017. For details on where and when, click here.

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“Intense Lyricism” of Slavnikova’s 2017

By mbs | Published: July 5, 2010

Karen Vanuska, in her “writer’s journal of her reading and writing life,” has posted a flattering review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017: It wouldn’t be summer if I didn’t pick up a Russian novel.  Though I received my review copy of 2017 by Olga Slavnikova back in March, I decided to save it [...]

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Slavnikova’s 2017 at barnesandnoblereview.com

By mbs | Published: June 23, 2010

Anna Mundow gives a glowing review of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 at barnesandnoblereview.com: Olga Slavnikova’s profound new novel 2017 evokes, with uncanny vividness, a Russia of the near-future in which a character reasonably wonders  “…how much about human beings is human?” . . . To read the rest, click here.

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Publishers Weekly Gives Moscow Noir a Star

By mbs | Published: June 1, 2010

PW has given Moscow Noir (Akashic Books) a starred review and mentions Anuchkin’s “Field of a Thousand Corpses,” one of several I translated for the anthology: As literary agents Smirnova and Goumen note in their introduction to this excellent entry in Akashic's noir series, “A noir tradition does not yet really exist in Russia.” Still, [...]

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Behind the Line

By mbs | Published: May 25, 2010

Thanks to Kyle Semmel of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, who has posted an interview with me about Russian literature, Olga Slavnikova’s 2017, and how I translate.

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