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Stop Smiling and Bolano

It’s not available online, but the new issue of Stop Smiling — the third annual 20 interviews issue — contains the last ever interview given by Roberto Bolano. And interviews with some other interesting people as well, like Enrique Vila-Matas, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster, and Stephen Malkmus, although ...

Matvei Yankelevich in Stop Smiling

The latest issue of Stop Smiling has an excellent interview with Matvei Yankelevich about his translation of Daniil Kharms’s Today I Wrote Nothing. A good portion of the interview consists of Yankelevich talking about the process of translation and other translations of Russian literature, including this bit ...