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.
Lots of good reviews have come in for my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s “rambunctious” (as Donna Seaman describes it for Booklist) novel, 2017: Seaman writes one of the most accurate descriptions of the book I’ve read: Strange things are happening in the rugged Riphean Mountains in this rambunctious novel of Russian society 100 years after [...]
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.
Kyle Semmel of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, has given my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s 2017—just out from Overlook Press—a very nice review indeed: It’s hard not to think of twentieth-century Russian history as you crack open 2017, Olga Slavnikova’s Russian Booker Prize winning novel. The year 2017 will mark, of course, the 100th [...]
On the occasion of Yale University Press’s paperback edition of Oblomov, Katherine A. Powers has a glowing review in the Boston Globe: The expression “great comic novel” attached to a title usually causes me to drop everything and rush off to the library to secure what I consider to be one of the prime reasons [...]
Lizok’s Bookshelf has run the first review I’ve seen of my translation of Olga Slavnikova’s forthcoming novel, 2017, which Overlook Press is publishing in March: Olga Slavnikova’s Booker-winning 2017 is so tough to describe that I think I’ll do something very lazy and begin with words that compactly list some of its themes: rock hound, [...]
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