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Translation in the Age of Customs and Border Protection [by Val Vinokur]
"It is the opposite which is good for us." –– Heraclitus of Ephesus I grew up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, in a country that was afraid that its citizens would…
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Val Vinokur, Guest Author January 8-12
This week we welcome Val Vinokur as our guest author. Val has been published in such venues as Common Knowledge, The Boston Review, McSweeney's, LitHub, The Russian Review, Zeek, The Massachusetts Review, Journal of Religion and Society, The Literary Review, and New American Writing.…
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Next Line, Please: Estimated Wait Time [by Virginia Valenzuela]
The voting goes on as we try to find the top ten poems of 2017! A lot happened last year and a lot continues to surface, but at the very least, our poems will…
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Isaac Babel’s essential fictions––and poetry? [By Val Vinokur]
Babel on a stud farm. The event that occasions my guest bloggery for BAP is the recent publication of my annotated translation of seventy-two stories by Isaac…
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“Gina Lollobrigida” [by Mitch Sisskind]
I called her Gina Lollobrigida,I saw her on the street, I said, ‘Hey, Gina Lollobrigida.” She said, ‘Who is Gina Lollobrigida?’ I said, ‘She is Gina Lollobrigida.’ She said,‘Okay, I will Google her. — Mitch Sisskind (11…
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Advance Copies Available at MLA18: “Next Line, Please”
The best of the popular American Scholar weekly contest gathered in one book: Hey, #mla18 attendees: A free advance reading copy of NEXT LINE, PLEASE: PROMPTS TO INSPIRE POETS AND WRITERS edited by David…
