Eileen Myles [Guest host: Jeff Alessandrelli]
The Lives of Writers
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The Importance of Translators
I think translators are the smartest, most interesting people. There's a selflessness about it too, which is great and kind of necessary. Well, they love their up there with editors. They just love literature. And like, I know Chelsea Girls just came out in French and won a book award. Did it? That's best foreign novel. Cool. I know 30 years after it's published. I know I love it. It's a late arrival for, well, that's awesome though. But I mean, did you work with, I guess, is it different in prose too? With a translator or? Normally I do and I was actually quite anxious because I didn't
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