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The article here indicates that "she emigrated to the United States in 1989." But her Wikipedia biography lists her nationality as "Mexican." At any rate, I am proud to point out that she is a long-time faculty member of the university where I work.

https://stories.uh.edu/2024-rivera-garza-pulitzer/index.html Whose house? Coogs' house! (The University of Houston mascot is a cougar.)

I highly recommend Just Above My Head, it is everything you said about Baldwin's late work (passionate, lived-in, and messy) and much more. And it contains an unforgettable evocation of the music of the era. Prepare a good soundtrack for reading this novel, with lots of Coltrane, Brubeck, and...

I just came across this essay by the translator of some of Fosse's plays into (American) English: https://lithub.com/how-jon-fosse-teaches-us-to-acknowledge-our-own-vulnerability/ It gives an insight into the principle of repetition in his work, and it is fascinating to read about the choices...

This is depressing on so many different levels.

Thank you for this!

I loved you: and the feeling, why deceive you, May not be quite extinct within me yet; (Walter Arndt, trans.) You make a very good point! I found a nice overview of different attempts to English this poem here...

I know this is slightly longer than what you need, but it is both accessible and important: Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185/thesixthextinction If you are looking for something more of a classic, and again, slightly longer than the length...

Thank you again, Ben! This is brilliant. And thank you, Sara Danius.

Thank you for all of this history, Ben! Whatever we may think of the SA's particular choices in a given year, it is fascinating to have it all spread out like this.

Enjoy! I remember laughing myself sick over part of it. It is both highly entertaining and also extremely informative.

This is a wonderful appreciation of a fascinating work, also this image is a great find!

Nabokov did in fact write a small book on Gogol that to my mind ranks as one of the greatest things he ever wrote and serves as a splendid introduction to Gogol for anyone who reads him in translation. https://www.amazon.com/Nikolai-Gogol-Vladimir-Nabokov/dp/0811201201

https://www.svoboda.org/a/lyudmila-ulitskaya-ya-ozhidayu-novogo-kuljturnogo-pritoka-/32864185.html. A new interview! In Russian, but worth it for the photos alone. https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-b32e-08dc4790f99b_w408_r0_s.jpg

Desejo-lhe um feliz aniversário, Benny!

The portrait dates from 1905.

It must have been twenty years ago that I was reading The Promised Land, I don't remember whether I came across an English-language translation, but I think there must be one somewhere. Whether it is at all recent or in print is another question. Amazingly, Amazon sells a DIY paint-by-numbers...

Ben, you know far better than I do what the Nobel committee was thinking when it awarded Reymont, but for my money, the Nobel should have had something to do with his extraordinary look at the dark underside of industrialization and robber-baron era capitalism, The Promised Land [Ziemia...

Thank you, Ben!

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781565842304 I have never even opened the English translation, but Publisher’s Weekly gives a helpful description of what the novel is about.