Write In Stone
We are desperate to leave our mark, something that won’t die like we must. Replication is an escape from oblivion.
The Manizales Bookfair: Books, joy, and tears in el eje de café.
The Manizales bookfair, a grand experiment in literary friendship, has left me limp from sheer joy.
Near and Far
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand …
First Thoughts on The Art of Translation
In a couple of days, I fly. My ultimate destination: La Feria del Libro at La Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, Colombia, where I’ve been …
No One Can Teach You to Write
At their best, writing programs provide a chance for the uncool to find their tribe and perhaps a mentor in a star who, underneath it all, is also profoundly uncool.
