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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 [...]