Dog’s Heart is Alive
“Все испытал, с судьбой своей мирюсь и, если плачу сейчас, то только от физической боли и холода, потому что дух мой еще не угас… Живуч собачий дух.”
Baruch FYW Interviews Me
It was nice to be recognized by CUNY in this little interview. My teaching has already changed since last May when I did this. And such a great picture!
An Echo
Deaf Republic / Ilya Kaminsky
Two Recent Publications
Breaking Down Walls
In altre parole / Jhumpa Lahiri (How I Feel About Russian)
Go Home and Keep Going
“In the end, the girl’s scream — a fearful sound — turning into innocuous laughter can resemble the pathos of an immigrant’s linguistic misapprehension turning into bathos when apprehension comes, the drama and tension lost in mistranslation and released like ‘an arrow that landed between us, narrowly missing its mark.'” This is from my review of David Bezmozgis’ Immigrant City.
FAll 2018 WINter 2019
Pachinko / Min Jin Lee
Bobcat and Other Stories / Rebecca Lee
Demolition Night / Ross Barkan
Immigrant City / David Bezmozgis
Fast Lane / Jayne Anne Phillips
Sacred Darkness / Levan Berdzenshvili
The Idiot / Elif Batuman
“Bess” by Jayne Anne Phillips
“No love is innocent once it has recognized its own existence.”
Some Her
“The Creative Process” / James Baldwin
Сотников Василя Быкова
The Mars Room / Rachel Kushner
“Notes on Craft” / Cormac James (Granta)
“Gimpel the Fool” / Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The Iliad, or the Poem of Force” / Simone Weil, trans. by James Holoka
“A Man from Warsaw” / Isaac Bashevis Singer
If Not Now, When / Primo Levi
The Autobiography of Red / Anne Carson
MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction
Eileen Chang
Bad Behavior / Mary Gaitskill
