Rain Taxi Love for Vilnius Poker
The new issue of Rain Taxi has a really nice review by Alex Starace of Ricardas Gavelis’s Vilnius Poker: As Vilnius Poker begins, the main character, Vytautus Vargalys, has to go to work just like any other citizen in 1970s Lithuania—no matter that he is plagued by sustained paranoia, psychotic visions and ...
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A Short Guide to Literary Minneapolis
Early this week I took a trip to Minneapolis-St. Paul to visit the various literary organizations located there (which should explain why I haven’t posted much the past few days). For those who don’t know, MSP is a hotbed of nonprofit literary publishing and literary culture in general. Reservations cast aside, ...
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Rain Taxi Summer Edition
The second half of Rain Taxi‘s online Summer Issue is now available. Included in this issue is an essay by Clayton Eshleman on “Translating Cesar Vallejo,” which contains a few interesting observations about the challenges of translation: The temptation in Kyoto at this time was to tinker with ...
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