🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
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The Importance of Speed in Translation
The Tochastation was the strangest example of translation like as the book depends on his accounts of his Spanish and it's bad so when they translated into Spanish and suddenly the narrator was writing this quite literary you know I'm good or bad but quite literary. The books are all very for me I do imagine a particular leader like I'm interested in a lot of like transpositions that happen across different contexts such as fiction, nonfiction and criticism. There's a different kind of depicted time and in prose but I often like I'm trying to bring the time of writing into the present tense of composition at certain moments in prose. In poetry there is a return to an immediacy
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