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An Evening with Olga Slavnikova and Marian Schwartz

By mbs | Published: April 29, 2011

On Wednesday, May 25, at 6:30p, Olga Slavnikova and I will be giving a reading at the Jerry Orbach Theater in New York.  Last year her novel, 2017, which won the Russian Booker Prize, was published in English in my translation by Overlook Press.  Save the date! Jerry Orbach Theater, 1627 Broadway Third Floor (entrance on [...]

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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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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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Lizok’s Bookshelf Reviews Olga Slavnikova’s 2017

By mbs | Published: April 21, 2010

Lizok’s Bookshelf (written by Lisa Hayden Espenschade) has posted an interview with me about some recent translations of mine and even a cheerful thought on the future of foreign literature publishing in this country.

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Creating translations that are faithful, not literal

By mbs | Published: April 4, 2010

On the heels of the publication of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017 (Overlook) and the paperback edition of Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov (Yale), an interview with me in the Boston Globe. 

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