Samantha Edmonds To try something (good lord, anything) else Grow up, slowly and without noticing. Your mom is your best friend. Pick a school close to her. She will ask you to live at home. Shake your head, but cry when she drops you off on your first day....
By Samantha Edmonds Decide You’re a happy kid. Sit in the back of the church-house three times a week with your feet propped up on the fuzzy red pew in front of you. Wear tights under your scratchy dress—your mother makes you anyway—so that this position is not...
In the last issue, I spoke with Danish translator Martin Aitken. This time I turn to Argentina and translator Roanne L. Kantor. Her translation of Juan José Saer’s The One Before publishes with Open Letter this month. Read Ryan C. Corder’s review of this...
By Rion Amilcar Scott Near the end of the first day of my third Ramadan, Omar went to the store as the sun set and returned at the brink of the moon, bearing everything I requested except the dried fruit. I specifically said dried apricots and raisins. When he...
The One Before By Juan José Saer Open Letter, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-934824788 $12.95 (paperback) Reviewed by Ryan C. Corder Juan José Saer has been regarded as the “most important Argentinian writer since Borges” by The Independent. Considering Borges’s legacy,...
By Roberto Loiederman We went to Santa Fe in Paul and Cheryl’s rust-colored pick-up truck, a ’48 Chevy that had ugly splotches on the exterior, holes in the floorboards and no heat, so as soon as we got into higher elevations, it was cold in the vehicle. Joan and I...
