Responding to Lydia Davis: Exercises in Style
For the last three weeks, Lydia Davis has shared her thoughts and experiences in translating Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. She writes, “I did not study the other translations during my first draft...
View ArticleAn Editor Abroad: San Francisco
While on the California leg of his tour, Lorin has been writing dispatches for the special Frankfurt Book Fair edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Here is today’s dispatch, sent from San...
View ArticleGeoff Dyer on ‘Otherwise Known as the Human Condition’
Photograph by Lawrence Impey. “Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career,” Geoff Dyer explains, by way of introduction, in his new essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human...
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