Burning Down George Orwell’s House Author: Andrew Ervin Soho Press, 2015 (publishes May 5th) ISBN: 978-1-61695-494-9 $25.95 (Hardcover) Reviewed by Melanie J. Cordova After countless hours of travel, an exhausted and ill-prepared Ray Welter arrives on Jura,...
By Randon Billings Noble Everyone asked Neil Armstrong what it was like to walk on the moon. But how did the moon feel? * Four-and-a-half billion years ago the moon formed, the result of a tragic union between the Earth and an unknown, careening planet. Slowly, lento,...
I spoke with Andrew Ervin recently about his forthcoming novel, Burning Down George Orwell’s House. His first book, Extraordinary Renditions, a collection of three novellas, is a reader’s delight. Ervin grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and has lived in...
K.E. Semmel talks to Martin Aitken about translating and the urge to create As an independent translator, I am interested in the art of literary translation. Translators invigorate our reading lives: Without them there would be no world literature. And yet,...
In 2002, SFWP publisher Andrew Gifford started the first iteration of the SFWP Journal. During the course of the next thirteen years, the journal published 361 stories by a large number of writers—almost all of whom were, at the time, un-established—on a mostly...
