Sep 29, 2022
What Translators Mean When We Talk about Reading
Make sure you save a little of the “joy of discovery” for the actual translation process by not reading your source text too closely before translating it.
Make sure you save a little of the “joy of discovery” for the actual translation process by not reading your source text too closely before translating it.
Portuguese was my first language, but it was quickly followed by English. To this day, I have the impression that when I speak in English, I bury bits of myself in the process.
How does one translate life into poetry, especially in seasons of total depletion?
Aditi Malhotra tells us about how handwriting has been a through line in her friendships, shows how handwriting can be incorporated into a generative practice, and offers some tried-and-tested stress-relief postures for happy handwriters.
Ben Sandman elaborates on two strategies for crafting the comic metaphor—and shows us that the recipe for inducing laughter is different from what we might whip up for more serious writing.
Many of the stories felt written on the edge of an edge of an edge of a world.
The fear that I might never write a book led me to develop a practical system of writing by numbers.
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Writing requires solitude so that the ghosts will come unencumbered.
When you try to be “good” it doesn’t always work, but something fascinating happens when you try to be “bad.”
In this interview, Elissa Bassist discusses her memoir “Hysterical,” keeping her humor sharp, and the endurance test of writing a book.
Neither of us has dated another writer—we both said we wouldn’t. Part of our hesitation had to do with very literal questions of how to share space.
Better than controlling my writing mind, I’ve figured out that what my brain wants most is to be free
Take a deep dive into your obsession with this poetry prompt from Luther Hughes.
When a writing project has a good title, everyone can feel it. But getting there can be a struggle—for both the author and the publishing team, if your project happens to be a book.
Writers are under increasing pressure to spend their own money while promoting their books, even if their book is published by a Big Four publishing house.
If you work in translation, check out this list of grants and fellowships with approaching deadlines.
On some days I’d write up to twelve posts, each snarkier than the last. The meaner I was, the more they liked me.
Akanksha Singh interviews Dur e Aziz Amna about her novel ‘American Fever,’ the burdens of representation, and performing for the dominant culture.
I was confident in my narrative and wrote a memoir about it. But turns out the facts were questionable.
