“To Die a Little” is a short story by Eduardo Halfon. Born in Guatemala City, Halfon is an acclaimed author of novels and short stories. He was named one of 39 Best Young Latin American Writers at the 2007 Bogota Hay Festival.
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In this interview, Hervé Le Tellier talks to Sampsonia Way about the patchwork nature of a novel, his influences, and the art of translation. Le Tellier will read from his latest novel, Enough About Love, at City of Asylum Pittsburgh
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Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation, will be reading for City of Asylum/Pittsburgh in May 2011 on her whirlwind international book tour. Her debut novel is a coming-of-age story about Kimberly Chang, a Chinese immigrant [...]
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Billy Kahora came of age in post-independence Kenya, during a time of rising poverty and social upheaval. In his words, he grew up just as “things were getting really shitty.” Born in the 1970s, Kahora is [...]
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Venezuelan writer Beverly Pérez Rego talks about non-tradition, shamanism, “uprootedness,” feminism, and how women writers create subversive texts.
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“Homing Pigeons” is the first published work by South African writer Maxine Case. It first appeared in the 2005 anthology African Compass: New Writing from Southern Africa edited by J.M. Coetzee.
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“Homing Pigeons” is the first published work by South African writer Maxine Case. It first appeared in the 2005 anthology African Compass: New Writing from Southern Africa edited by J.M. Coetzee.
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In Hameed Al-Mukhtaar’s short story, a reporter searches for an elusive holy man in the labyrinthine back alleyways of an unnamed Iraqi city.
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In Hameed Al-Mukhtaar’s short story, a reporter searches for an elusive holy man in the labyrinthine back alleyways of an unnamed Iraqi city.
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, Edwidge Danticat’s recently published book of essays, begins with an execution. Danticat meticulously describes the death of Marcel Numa and Louis Drouin, two members of a guerilla army that [...]
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