We’re back! This week, host Erica Mena talks with preeminent literary translator Edith Grossman about her recent book “Why Translation Matters,” her translations of Luis de Gongora’s “Soledades” (The Solitudes) and her latest project, “The Dept

Reading the World Podcast #9: Martha Collins

Mar 28th, 2011

Erica Mena and special co-host Mike Schorsch talk with translator and poet Martha Collins about translation as political action, and translation of Vietnamese poetry

Reading the World Podcast #8: Mark Schafer

Feb 28th, 2011

In this Reading the World podcast, Erica Mena talks to translator Mark Schafer about his two latest translations, Before Saying Any of the Great Words by David Huerta (Copper Canyon, 2009) and The Scale of Maps by Bélen Gopegui (City Lights, 20

Reading the World Podcast #7: Fady Joudah

Jan 12th, 2011

This episode of the Reading the World Podcast features a conversation with Fady Joudah, Palestinian-American poet, physician, and translator. He won the Yale Younger Poets Competition in 2007 for his collection The Earth in the Attic (Yale) and

Reading the World #6: Forrest Gander

Sep 3rd, 2010

This month we talk with poet and translator Forrest Gander about approaches to translating poetry and his forthcoming translation “Watchword” by Pura López Colomé.

Reading the World Podcast #5: Bill Johnston

Jun 30th, 2010

This month we talk with translator Bill Johnston about Polish translations, dialects, and his forthcoming translation “Stone upon Stone” by Wieslaw Mysliwski.

Reading the World Podcast #4: Esther Allen

May 13th, 2010

This month features a discussion between Esther Allen, Erica Mena, and Chad Post on all sorts of translation things, mainly related to Esther’s translation of Jose Manuel Prieto’s Rex.

Reading the World Podcast #3: Suzanne Jill Levine

Apr 2nd, 2010

This month we talk with Suzanne Jill Levine, famed translator and author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction.

Reading the World Podcast #2: Susan Harris

Mar 8th, 2010

This month’s episode features Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, who came on to talk about WWB’s educational programs and the Ecco Anthology of International Poetry that she edited along with Ilya Kaminsky.

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