A conversation with editor DANIEL GUMBINER
and translators KATHERINE SILVER
and JOEL STREIKER
In thirteen electrifying stories, McSweeney's very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle—swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even, briefly, to Epcot Center and the Havana home of a Cuban transsexual named Amy Winehouse.
Featuring contemporary writers from ten different countries—including Alejandro Zambra, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Andres Ressia Colino, Mariana Enriquez, and many more—McSweeney’s 46 offers an essential cross-section of the troubles and temptations confronting the region today. It’s crucial reading for anyone interested in the shifting topography of Latin American literature and Latin American life, and a collection of writing to rival anything McSweeney's has assembled in years.
You'll get the inside scoop on the amazing writers represented in this big new book from a McSweeney's editor and two excellent translators.
KATHERINE SILVER is an award-winning translator of literature from Spanish and also the codirector of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) in Alberta, Canada. Her most recent translations include works by Martín Adán, Daniel Sada, Horacio Castellanos Moya, César Aira, Rafael Bernal, Jorge Luis Borges, and Marcos Giralt Torrente.
JOEL STREICKER’s translations of Latin American authors have appeared in A Public Space, Subtropics, Words Without Borders, Zyzzyva, and Epiphany. He received a 2011 PEN American Center Translation Fund Grant to translate Samanta Schweblin’s collection of short stories, Pájaros en la boca . Streicker holds a B.A. in Latin American studies from the University of Michigan and a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University.
DANIEL GUMBINER is an editor at McSweeney's. He lives in Berkeley.
13 CRIME STORIES FROM LATIN AMERICA: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #46
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 7:30pm
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