Language That Lives: How to Translate an Italian Master: buff.ly/3Ia5rYN Brian Robert Moore @the_millions #wkb5b

Donoso was a complicated person, but he loved literary evolution and fought for more diverse letters. I wrote a celebration of his style for The Millions: shorturl.at/drvZ8

I'm also excited to share this piece will be translated by Revista Santiago for Donoso's 100th!

Zach’s review of the new Donoso translation and phenomenon of the so-called ‘Latin American Boom’ at The Millions is lovely, well worth reading

What with Nicholson Baker having a new book out, I should post this 2011 The Millions piece I wrote on his novels — all the novels he’d written to that point, anyway: themillions.com/2010/11/consci…

Purchased immediately. It sounds fascinating.

#FromTheArchive 'There is so much I wish I could unknow about Emma Cline and her debut novel 'The Girls.''

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J.G. Ballard died on this day in 2009.

'The greatest danger in a world of decadence, Ballard's 'Kingdom Come' suggests, is the mixture of an insatiable appetite for entertainment with widespread boredom.'

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#FromTheArchive 'Within the scaffolding of the body horror trope, female bodies are presented with unprecedented choice: They can be at once unstable, vulnerable, suffocating, difficult, frightening, monstrous, and changing right before your eyes.'

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'I’m uncomfortable with the simple statement of 'books saved us' as much as I agree they do. They can open up possibilities that weren’t there—and those possibilities aren’t always helpful.' themillions.com/2024/04/suzann…

'That’s what being a monster is sometimes: abandoned with the injuries of a painful isolation.'

#FromTheArchive 'One of Ingalls’s key moves is simply to imagine casual sex with a monster-man. She doesn’t stop there, either. She spends the rest of the novel thinking over the boundaries of Dorothy’s desire.'

MH Rowe on Rachel Ingalls’s 'Mrs. Caliban.' pwne.ws/3Q9n3bz

#FromTheArchive 'When writers burn their own manuscripts, they are destroying their own words. Cathartic, but also a bit sadistic. Burning is a slow, ritualistic death. Why not simply throw away a manuscript?'

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'Everett told me he rejected the term 'revenge fantasy.' Revenge—like slave narrative, or Black, or white—are, after all, just labels. They are another layer of abstraction we apply to things, ultimately further complicating how we (mis)understand them.'

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#FromTheArchive 'We may be slowly losing the inclination to tell stories in third person. Why does this matter? Because, I believe, third-person narration is the greatest artistic tool humans have devised to tell the story of what it means to be human.'

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Gabriel García Marquez died on this day in 2014.

'García Marquez gave license to a new kind of fabulism. He arrived at a moment of crisis for the form and offered the warring parties a graceful way out of it.'

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'The precise joy derived from reading Everett’s fiction lies in its embrace of contradiction and ambiguity, in its gameness to confound.' pwne.ws/4asXdY1

'I’m uncomfortable with the simple statement of 'books saved us' as much as I agree they do. They can open up possibilities that weren’t there—and those possibilities aren’t always helpful.'

Suzanne Scanlon on her new memoir 'Committed.' pwne.ws/4cRKAHT

'I’ve never been interested in making a claim to originality.... it’s far more interesting to think about how works emerge from context and conversations. We’re always re-activating existing forms & combining them in new ways.'

Kate Briggs The Millions

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#FromTheArchive 'The act of sending my memoir out, I discovered, is actually the process of sending yourself, time after time, to a stranger. Usually, I never got any response at all.'

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Kingsley Amis was born on this day in 1922.

'To dismiss Amis as a misogynist would be an attempt to resolve the sort of frustrated justice he himself depicted over and over again.'

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