Tag: short stories

August 30, 2018

Best of Backlist Short Fiction from the Weatherhead Books on Asia Series: River of Fire and Other Stories and There A Petal Silently Falls

Remember to enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy of this book or any of the other titles we’re featuring this week! “Haunting, painful and affirming, full of illusions and hallucinations while rooted in the graphically physical…. Everything about...

June 19, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Dream World of Susana Medina

Read an essay on the fiction of Susana Medina by University of Utrecht student Cormac McGee.

May 29, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: "I've heard it said that on a good day, Askildsen wrote two sentences and crossed out one, but that on a really good day, he wrote one and crossed out two"

This week’s Thursday Fiction Corner post comes courtesy of Seán Kinsella, who describes the experience of translating Kjell Askildsen’s SELECTED STORIES.

September 13, 2013

Julia Lovell on Zhu Wen

We conclude our week-long feature on The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China,with an excerpt from Julia Lovell’s Translator’s Preface to Zhu Wen’s earlier collection of short stories, I Love Dollars. Don’t forget to enter...

September 11, 2013

An Interview with Translator Julia Lovell

Read part of an interview with Julia Lovell, translator of Zhu Wen’s The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

September 10, 2013

Excerpt: "The Apprentice," by Zhu Wen

Read “The Apprentice,” an excerpt from Zhu Wen’s THE MATCHMAKER, THE APPRENTICE, AND THE FOOTBALL FAN.