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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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Squaring the Circle

By mbs | Published: May 17, 2010

Glas has just published Squaring the Circle: Short Stories by Winners of the Debut Prize, compiled by Olga Slavnikova: This anthology presents Russian prose by a new generation. The authors, who come from various parts of Russia, never lived in the Soviet Union. They are free of the Soviet legacy. They have no nostalgia and [...]

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2017, by Olga Slavnikova

By mbs | Published: May 4, 2010

  2017 By Olga Slavnikova Translated by Marian Schwartz Overlook Press, 2010   In a translation funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and executed to perfection by prize-winning translator Marian Schwartz, 2017 is part literary romance, part political thriller, and a stunning tale of adventure, fantasy and obsession. Set in the near future, [...]

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“Seaweed Mattress”

By mbs | Published: April 21, 2010

Subtropics has published my translation of Mark Girshin’s “Seaweed Mattress,” a series of vignettes about a childhood spent in Odessa in the 1910s and 1920s, part of his longer memoir, Mosaic.  The title refers to the custom there, on the Black Sea, of stuffing mattresses with seaweed rather than straw.  In Anastasia Kozak’s interview with [...]

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