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In Conversation with Curtis Bauer, Translator of Home Reading Service, a Novel by Fabio Morábito
June 29, 2022 19:40 - 59 minutesWhen thinking about how to describe this brilliant novella by renowned Mexican author Fabio Morábito, the juxtaposition of poetry, oddities and irony seemed to convey its breadth. Have a listen as I and two members of Wayfarers Book Club talk to translator Curtis Bauer, where he shares his approach, insights and takeaways. ~Lisa Lisa Carter is Founder and Creative Director of Intralingo, helping authors and translators write and readers explore stories. Lisa brings two decades of profession...
In Conversation with Curtis Bauer, Translator of Home Reading Service, a Novel by Fabio Morábito
June 29, 2022 19:40 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBWhen thinking about how to describe this brilliant novella by renowned Mexican author Fabio Morábito, the juxtaposition of poetry, oddities and irony seemed to convey its breadth. Have a listen as I and two members of Wayfarers Book Club talk to translator Curtis Bauer, where he shares his approach, insights and takeaways. ~Lisa Lisa Carter is Founder and Creative Director of Intralingo, helping authors and translators write and readers explore stories. Lisa brings two decades of professio...
Walking the Bowl
March 24, 2022 21:11 - 6 minutesHello, BookLoves. In this episode of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, I offer a short reading from the book Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka, by Chris Lockhart & Daniel Mulilo Chama. Below, I offer a whole lot more about it, what I took from it, and what I hope you might too. From the publisher: For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in cont...
S03 E06 - Wayfarers 360° Experience: A reading and an offer from Intralingo
January 27, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutesSeason 03 Episode 06 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast I’m here today with a little something different: a short reading from the novel The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak, and an offer. ~Lisa Wayfarers 360° Experience The Wayfarers 360° Experience is a whole body, whole-hearted exploration, through the pages of a book. Over six weeks (Feb 5-Mar 12, 2022), we’ll read a novel together, at a leisurely pace, savoring it from the outside in and looking at it from our inside out....
Wayfarers 360° Experience: A reading and an offer from Intralingo
January 27, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutes - 7.5 MBSeason 03 Episode 06 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast I’m here today with a little something different: a short reading from the novel The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak, and an offer. ~Lisa Wayfarers 360° Experience The Wayfarers 360° Experience is a whole body, whole-hearted exploration, through the pages of a book. Over six weeks (Feb 5-Mar 12, 2022), we’ll read a novel together, at a leisurely pace, savoring it from the outside in and looking at it from our inside out....
S03 E06 - Wayfarers 360° Experience: A reading and an offer from Intralingo
January 27, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutesSeason 03 Episode 06 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast I’m here today with a little something different: a short reading from the novel The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak, and an offer. ~Lisa Wayfarers 360° Experience The Wayfarers 360° Experience is a whole body, whole-hearted exploration, through the pages of a book. Over six weeks (Feb 5-Mar 12, 2022), we’ll read a novel together, at a leisurely pace, savoring it from the outside in and looking at it from our inside out....
CAMEROON - Interview with author Max Lobe and translator Ros Schwartz
January 23, 2022 19:00 - 46 minutesSeason 03 Episode 05 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast Max is the most delightful guest who shared much about the wide-ranging themes he wanted to convey in this story and, as an extraordinarily talented and sensitive translator, Ros offered yet another dimension to this slim but deep novel. ~Lisa Lisa Carter Founder & Creative Director, Intralingo Inc. 00:00:36 – Introduction 00:01:35 – Max shares what he wanted to write about: migration from Africa to Europe, Boko Haram, religion...
NORWAY - Interview with author Michelle Grierson
January 13, 2022 17:00 - 55 minutesIn Conversation with Michelle Grierson, author of Becoming Leidah Season 03 Episode 04 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast We’re so happy to share a truly magical conversation with author Michelle Grierson about her debut novel, Becoming Leidah. This one includes questions from a number of readers and is filled with deeply personal shares and insights. ~Lisa Lisa Carter Founder & Creative Director, Intralingo Inc. 00:00:11 – Introduction 00:03:00 – Michelle’s Norwegian ancestry ...
SOMALIA - Interview with author Shugri Said Salh
September 23, 2021 16:00 - 54 minutesSeason 03 Episode 03 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast I hope you will enjoy this soulful, shifting, emotional –and fun!– conversation with author Shugri Said Salh about her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert. ~Lisa Lisa Carter Founder & Creative Director, Intralingo Inc. 00:00:11 – Introduction 00:02:11 – Our shared humanity 00:09:48 – Childhood as a nomad in the desert of Somalia 00:16:45 – Connection to storytelling 00:23:24 – Universal theme and the...
CHINA – Interview with author Zhang Ling and translator Shelly Bryant
March 26, 2021 19:00 - 55 minutesSeason 3 Episode 02 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Lisa Carter talks to Zhang Ling and Shelly Bryant about their novel, A Single Swallow. The discussion covers the themes of trauma, war and memory, informed by Ling’s work as a clinical audiologist, discoveries she made on her research trips to China, the voices of the narrators, the beauty of the language of the original, and so much more. Zhang Ling is the award-winning autho...
CHINA – Interview with author Zhang Ling and translator Shelly Bryant
March 26, 2021 19:00 - 55 minutesSeason 3 Episode 02 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Lisa Carter talks to Zhang Ling and Shelly Bryant about their novel, A Single Swallow. The discussion covers the themes of trauma, war and memory, informed by Ling’s work as a clinical audiologist, discoveries she made on her research trips to China, the voices of the narrators, the beauty of the language of the original, and so much more. Zhang Ling is the award-winning autho...
IRAN – Interview with author Nazanine Hozar
January 14, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutesSeason 3 - Episode 01 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. I'm so pleased to have spoken to author Nazanine Hozar about her debut novel, Aria -- which Margaret Atwood called the "Doctor Zhivago of Iran"! NAZANINE HOZAR was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in British Columbia, Canada. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Vancouver Observer and Prairie Fire magazine. The book is available in all formats and from...
IRAN – Interview with author Nazanine Hozar
January 14, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutesSeason 3 - Episode 01 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. I'm so pleased to have spoken to author Nazanine Hozar about her debut novel, Aria -- which Margaret Atwood called the "Doctor Zhivago of Iran"! NAZANINE HOZAR was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in British Columbia, Canada. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Vancouver Observer and Prairie Fire magazine. The book is available in all formats and from...
GREECE/TURKEY – Interview with translator Paula Darwish
November 17, 2020 19:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Children of War, by Ahmet Yorulmaz, translated by Paula Darwish Some years ago, I visited an abandoned city along the Aegean, where I learned for the first time about the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. It was perhaps the most unsettling place I’ve ever been. When I heard about Children of War, by Ahmet Yorulmaz, I couldn’t wait to read it. And then speak to transl...
GREECE/TURKEY – Interview with translator Paula Darwish
November 17, 2020 19:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Children of War, by Ahmet Yorulmaz, translated by Paula Darwish Some years ago, I visited an abandoned city along the Aegean, where I learned for the first time about the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. It was perhaps the most unsettling place I’ve ever been. When I heard about Children of War, by Ahmet Yorulmaz, I couldn’t wait to read it. And then speak to transl...
WORLD TRAVEL – Interview with author Margaret Davis Ghielmetti
October 27, 2020 20:00 - 50 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Margaret Davis Ghielmetti is a traveler, writer and live lit storyteller whose memoir is about setting off with her husband as he took on roles managing exclusive hotels around the world. In discovering the world, Margaret discovered herself. I felt a kindred soul in Margaret and all she shares in Brave(ish): A Memoir of a Recovering Perfectionist. We talk about looking outward, to other p...
WORLD TRAVEL – Interview with author Margaret Davis Ghielmetti
October 27, 2020 20:00 - 50 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Margaret Davis Ghielmetti is a traveler, writer and live lit storyteller whose memoir is about setting off with her husband as he took on roles managing exclusive hotels around the world. In discovering the world, Margaret discovered herself. I felt a kindred soul in Margaret and all she shares in Brave(ish): A Memoir of a Recovering Perfectionist. We talk about looking outward, to other p...
MONTENEGRO – Interview with Olja Knežević (author), Paula Gordon & Ellen Elias-Bursać (translators)
October 18, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourCatherine the Great and the Small is the coming-of-age story of a Montenegrin girl, her tumultuous teen and young adult years, as she is surrounded by the even more tumultuous events unfolding in what we now know as the ex-Yugoslavia. Author Olja Knežević says, “Catherine is someone who could have been my really good friend. I could have known her growing up.” This richness and intimacy of character is perhaps what I loved best about the book. I felt like she could have been my friend too....
MONTENEGRO – Interview with Olja Knežević (author), Paula Gordon & Ellen Elias-Bursać (translators)
October 18, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourCatherine the Great and the Small is the coming-of-age story of a Montenegrin girl, her tumultuous teen and young adult years, as she is surrounded by the even more tumultuous events unfolding in what we now know as the ex-Yugoslavia. Author Olja Knežević says, “Catherine is someone who could have been my really good friend. I could have known her growing up.” This richness and intimacy of character is perhaps what I loved best about the book. I felt like she could have been my friend too....
RUSSIA – Interview with translator Katherine E. Young
September 24, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Look at Him is a moving and one-of-a-kind memoir / investigative journalism exposé by Anna Starobinets, a novelist of such renown she is often referred to as “Russia’s Stephen King.” In this memoir, Anna recounts the loss of her unborn son due to a fatal birth defect. It is a deeply personal account and an honest, scathing commentary on the Russian medical system with respect to women’s he...
RUSSIA – Interview with translator Katherine E. Young
September 24, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Look at Him is a moving and one-of-a-kind memoir / investigative journalism exposé by Anna Starobinets, a novelist of such renown she is often referred to as “Russia’s Stephen King.” In this memoir, Anna recounts the loss of her unborn son due to a fatal birth defect. It is a deeply personal account and an honest, scathing commentary on the Russian medical system with respect to women’s he...
BRAZIL – Interview with author Natalia Borges Polesso & translator Julia Sanches
August 04, 2020 15:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Amora is a brilliant collection of stories that portray female love: romantic, familial, and platonic. Natalia: "I wanted to have this queer kid that sees a strange figure, a ‘stranger’. She wants to know about her and then she hears this word machorra and she wants to know what it is. When we think about literature that has lesbians as main characters, people go directly to sexuality, the...
BRAZIL – Interview with author Natalia Borges Polesso & translator Julia Sanches
August 04, 2020 15:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo World Lit Podcast, featuring authors and translators from around the globe. Amora is a brilliant collection of stories that portray female love: romantic, familial, and platonic. Natalia: "I wanted to have this queer kid that sees a strange figure, a ‘stranger’. She wants to know about her and then she hears this word machorra and she wants to know what it is. When we think about literature that has lesbians as main characters, people go directly to sexuality, the...
Spotlight on author Hamid Ismailov and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega
May 07, 2020 19:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBWelcome to the Intralingo SPOTLIGHT series, shining a light on authors and translators from around the globe. Uzbek author Hamid Ismailov, his English translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega and I talked about their two recent releases (Of Strangers & Bees and Gaia, Queen of Ants), which led us to consider the oldest story in literature, the Uzbek and Russian languages, the influence of politics on translation, the complexity of Hamid’s writing, and his absolute trust in Shelley. "So many peop...
UZBEKISTAN - Interview with author Hamid Ismailov and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega
May 07, 2020 19:00 - 46 minutesUzbek author Hamid Ismailov, his English translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega and I talked about their two recent releases (Of Strangers & Bees and Gaia, Queen of Ants), which led us to consider the oldest story in literature, the Uzbek and Russian languages, the influence of politics on translation, the complexity of Hamid’s writing, and his absolute trust in Shelley. "So many people only see Central Asian culture, and history, and literature through the lens of Russian culture and Soviet c...
SPOTLIGHT on author Silvia Moreno-Garcia
April 16, 2020 20:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBWelcome to the Intralingo SPOTLIGHT series, shining a light on authors and translators from around the globe. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican-Canadian author of six critically-acclaimed novels. We spoke about her most recent release, Untamed Shore. It is an artful, nuanced, suspenseful crime novel with a cinematic feel. Our conversation meandered into a discussion about diversity – or the lack thereof – in publishing. Silvia shared her own personal challenges in getting even this novel p...
MEXICO - Interview with author Silvia Moreno-Garcia
April 16, 2020 20:00 - 47 minutesWelcome to the Intralingo SPOTLIGHT series, shining a light on authors and translators from around the globe. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican-Canadian author of six critically-acclaimed novels. We spoke about her most recent release, Untamed Shore. It is an artful, nuanced, suspenseful crime novel with a cinematic feel. Our conversation meandered into a discussion about diversity – or the lack thereof – in publishing. Silvia shared her own personal challenges in getting even this novel p...
SOUTH AFRICA - Interview with author J.L. (Jessica) Powers
March 20, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutesIt seems a particularly good time to release this interview with J.L. Powers now, as the world grapples with COVID-19. Jessica shared a personal story that can help us all, about the power and personal transformation that are possible when we read fiction. "Books literally saved me. They catapulted me out of the fear I was experiencing as a person and into the realm of these other worlds, where I could be safe. I think that legacy, of books as a safe place, has always stayed with me. “Book...
SPOTLIGHT on author J.L. (Jessica) Powers
March 20, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBIt seems a particularly good time to release this interview with J.L. Powers now, as the world grapples with COVID-19. Jessica shared a personal story that can help us all, about the power and personal transformation that are possible when we read fiction. "Books literally saved me. They catapulted me out of the fear I was experiencing as a person and into the realm of these other worlds, where I could be safe. I think that legacy, of books as a safe place, has always stayed with me. “Book...
SPOTLIGHT on author Jane Banning
March 12, 2020 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBMy conversation with author Jane Banning is as wide-ranging as her collection of poetry, prose and flash fiction, ranging from war veterans to basement pickles, and from reading the world to pickleball. “I like contrast between between intensity and levity. So that's kind of what I tried to do [with this collection].” Jane feels like a soul sister of mine. As a reader, she is actively trying to read more about the world and its citizens. “I think it makes me a better person to try to get ...
USA - Interview with author Jane Banning
March 12, 2020 05:00 - 23 minutesMy conversation with author Jane Banning is as wide-ranging as her collection of poetry, prose and flash fiction, ranging from war veterans to basement pickles, and from reading the world to pickleball. “I like contrast between between intensity and levity. So that's kind of what I tried to do [with this collection].” Jane feels like a soul sister of mine. As a reader, she is actively trying to read more about the world and its citizens. “I think it makes me a better person to try to get ...
SPOTLIGHT on author Bridget Krone
March 05, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBBridget Krone brings us a brilliantly nuanced middle-grade novel about children and civil disobedience. Set in South Africa, Bridget was inspired by the time Gandhi spent in Pietermaritzburg and the true meaning of satyagraha, or "the quiet insistence of truth.” Her protagonist, Mercy, lives with two doddering old foster aunts, Flora and Mary. The three are later joined by Mr. Singh, who rents the small cottage out back. A property developer is eyeing their crumbling home, one of the last o...
SOUTH AFRICA - Interview with author Bridget Krone
March 05, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutesBridget Krone brings us a brilliantly nuanced middle-grade novel about children and civil disobedience. Set in South Africa, Bridget was inspired by the time Gandhi spent in Pietermaritzburg and the true meaning of satyagraha, or "the quiet insistence of truth.” Her protagonist, Mercy, lives with two doddering old foster aunts, Flora and Mary. The three are later joined by Mr. Singh, who rents the small cottage out back. A property developer is eyeing their crumbling home, one of the last o...
USA - Interview with author Sue Burke
February 20, 2020 19:00 - 22 minutesSue Burke is a writer and translator whose recent sci-fi duology (SEMIOSIS and INTERFERENCE) has appeared on a number of “Best of” lists and shortlisted for some highly prestigious prizes. Our conversation covered how she knew from even before she could read that she wanted to be a writer, the inspiration for her two books, and many of the themes they explore. Sue’s takeaway surprised me – and yet it shouldn’t have. It’s exactly what her books are about. And it’s of vitally important that ...
SPOTLIGHT on author Sue Burke
February 20, 2020 19:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBSue Burke is a writer and translator whose recent sci-fi duology (SEMIOSIS and INTERFERENCE) has appeared on a number of “Best of” lists and shortlisted for some highly prestigious prizes. Our conversation covered how she knew from even before she could read that she wanted to be a writer, the inspiration for her two books, and many of the themes they explore. Sue’s takeaway surprised me – and yet it shouldn’t have. It’s exactly what her books are about. And it’s of vitally important that ...
SPOTLIGHT on translator Sawad Hussain
February 05, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBSawad Hussain is the translator of Mama Hissa’s Mice, a rich and wrenching novel by the eminent Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi. My conversation with Sawad begins with her trajectory as a literary translator from the Arabic, then delves into the controversy this book incited when it was published in Kuwait. Deemed to incite national disunity and dissention (though in fact its purpose was the exact opposite), the Ministry of Information banned and burned Alsanousi’s book for about three years,...
KUWAIT - Interview with translator Sawad Hussain
February 05, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutesSawad Hussain is the translator of Mama Hissa’s Mice, a rich and wrenching novel by the eminent Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi. My conversation with Sawad begins with her trajectory as a literary translator from the Arabic, then delves into the controversy this book incited when it was published in Kuwait. Deemed to incite national disunity and dissention (though in fact its purpose was the exact opposite), the Ministry of Information banned and burned Alsanousi’s book for about three years,...
USA - Interview with memoirist Hope Mueller
January 22, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutesHope Mueller has written an inspirational memoir about her early life in the United States, life lived in a commune – something most of us know little about or tend to misconstrue. The passage Hope reads takes us right into her world on a cold school day morning, as she bakes a tray of donuts for breakfast, careful not to step on the scalding heating grate, while her mom smokes (and it’s not a cigarette). Throughout, Hope portrays not only the difficulties of a precarious existence, but the...
SPOTLIGHT on memoirist Hope Mueller
January 22, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBHope Mueller has written an inspirational memoir about her early life in the United States, life lived in a commune – something most of us know little about or tend to misconstrue. The passage Hope reads takes us right into her world on a cold school day morning, as she bakes a tray of donuts for breakfast, careful not to step on the scalding heating grate, while her mom smokes (and it’s not a cigarette). Throughout, Hope portrays not only the difficulties of a precarious existence, but the...
SPOTLIGHT on poet Miho Kinnas
December 16, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBMiho Kinnas speaks to us about her most recent collection of poetry: Move Over, Bird. This beautiful, slim edition contains an awesome array: original poetry in English, Japanese poems translated into English, translations of traditional haiku, a linked poem, found poems, and prose poems, poems written in the US, in China, and in Japan. There is something for everyone. Indeed, it’s Miho's hope that everyone who reads her book will find one poem that speaks to them or even inspires them to ...
JAPAN - Interview with poet Miho Kinnas
December 16, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutesMiho Kinnas speaks to us about her most recent collection of poetry: Move Over, Bird. This beautiful, slim edition contains an awesome array: original poetry in English, Japanese poems translated into English, translations of traditional haiku, a linked poem, found poems, and prose poems, poems written in the US, in China, and in Japan. There is something for everyone. Indeed, it’s Miho's hope that everyone who reads her book will find one poem that speaks to them or even inspires them to ...
SAUDI ARABIA - Interview with translator Timothy Gregory
December 13, 2019 21:00 - 26 minutesWe’ve got a double feature for you on the speculative fiction novel Warriors & Warlocks: Outcast, with interviews from both Timothy Gregory, translator from the Arabic, and Saudi author Monther Alkabbani. In my interview with Tim he says: "I like to grab a book every once in a while that's outside my norm and just try it, see what happens." That's exactly what I did with this novel and it was an excellent decision! Reading Outcast completely shook preconceived notions of what I would or wo...
SPOTLIGHT on translator Timothy Gregory
December 13, 2019 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBWe’ve got a double feature for you on the speculative fiction novel Warriors & Warlocks: Outcast, with interviews from both Timothy Gregory, translator from the Arabic, and Saudi author Monther Alkabbani. In my interview with Tim he says: "I like to grab a book every once in a while that's outside my norm and just try it, see what happens." That's exactly what I did with this novel and it was an excellent decision! Reading Outcast completely shook preconceived notions of what I would or wo...
SAUDI ARABIA - Interview with author Dr. Monther Alkabbani
December 06, 2019 21:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode, Dr. Monther Alkabbani and I chat about his first book in English, Warriors & Warlocks: Outcast, translated by Timothy Gregory. A work of speculative and historical fiction, it is “genre-bending” and being enjoyed equally by audiences in both Arabic and English. “It makes me really happy to see that the book resonated with English speakers, just as it did in the Arab world. It means that there’s a lot of commonality between people throughout cultures. […] A book can resonate...
SPOTLIGHT on author Dr. Monther Alkabbani
December 06, 2019 21:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBIn this episode, Dr. Monther Alkabbani and I chat about his first book in English, Warriors & Warlocks: Outcast, translated by Timothy Gregory. A work of speculative and historical fiction, it is “genre-bending” and being enjoyed equally by audiences in both Arabic and English. “It makes me really happy to see that the book resonated with English speakers, just as it did in the Arab world. It means that there’s a lot of commonality between people throughout cultures. […] A book can resonate...
USA - Interview with author Carla Damron
November 25, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutesCarla Damron’s fiction is very much inspired by her social work and social justice efforts. The themes of home, homelessness, addiction, loss, humanity, resilience, opening ourselves up, and moving forward run through her amazing literary novel and our conversation about it. “There are five threads in The Stone Necklace, five story arcs. I hope that you find the one that you need to read, and that it touches you the way that it needs to.” -Carla Damron Bio: South Carolinian Carla Damron i...
SPOTLIGHT on author Carla Damron
November 25, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBCarla Damron’s fiction is very much inspired by her social work and social justice efforts. The themes of home, homelessness, addiction, loss, humanity, resilience, opening ourselves up, and moving forward run through her amazing literary novel and our conversation about it. “There are five threads in The Stone Necklace, five story arcs. I hope that you find the one that you need to read, and that it touches you the way that it needs to.” -Carla Damron Bio: South Carolinian Carla Damron i...
USA (South Carolina) - Interview with author Carla Damron
November 25, 2019 21:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBCarla Damron’s fiction is very much inspired by her social work and social justice efforts. The themes of home, homelessness, addiction, loss, humanity, resilience, opening ourselves up, and moving forward run through her amazing literary novel and our conversation about it. “There are five threads in The Stone Necklace, five story arcs. I hope that you find the one that you need to read, and that it touches you the way that it needs to.” -Carla Damron Bio: South Carolinian Carla Damron i...
MADAGASCAR - Interview with translator Allison M. Charette
November 12, 2019 20:00 - 37 minutesAllison M. Charette and I have a wonderful chat about her latest translation, Return from the Enchanted Island, a novel by Johary Ravaloson. Only the second novel from Madagascar ever to be published in English, you're in for a treat! Bio: Allison M. Charette translates literature from French into English. She has received an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, been selected for the Translation Lab residency at Art OMI, and been nominated for the Best ...
SPOTLIGHT on translator Allison M. Charette
November 12, 2019 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBAllison M. Charette and I have a wonderful chat about her latest translation, Return from the Enchanted Island, a novel by Johary Ravaloson. Only the second novel from Madagascar ever to be published in English, you're in for a treat! Bio: Allison M. Charette translates literature from French into English. She has received an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, been selected for the Translation Lab residency at Art OMI, and been nominated for the Best ...