In "Full Tilt": Howard Goldblatt on How the Navy Saved His Life and Why Translation Matters

Read it here.

PEN USA Event November 19th: Memorial Reading for Mutanabbi Street

Monday, November 19 at 7:00 pm, Los Angeles: Chris Abani, Beau Beausoleil, Laila Lalami, Suzanne Lummis, Marisela Norte, Sholeh Wolpe, Terry Wolverton. Info here.

A New Anthology of Writing from the Caribbean

Translator Harry Morales alerts me that an anthology edited by Thomas Glave, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in May 2008. Stay tuned.