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Just testing out the new blog feature! Thanks to LSA, with a special thanks to Erin Norris who did the work on this, my old personal web page has now been transferred to this shiny new WordPress site. Which means I should be able to add to and edit it easily, and not let an
Out now from Hackett Publishing! Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscon), Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain. This was in many ways the most difficult (and therefore one of the most rewarding) translations I’ve done. And I have to admit, I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out.
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(This is a reposting of something I first posted as a personal note elsewhere, dated April 20, 2015.) Brutus left us last week. April 17, 2015, at about 5:20 in the afternoon. The little one, the black pug, Brutus had lived with us for almost seventeen years. Becoming “ours.” When I announced his death, the
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“Last year, when I had the pleasure of translating Cuban writer Abilio Estévez’s first novel Tuyo es el reino (Thine Is the Kingdom) from Spanish into English, it occurred to me that much has been written about the difficulties of translation but little about its joys.1 The 300-plus pages of this luminously written work allowed
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(Note: this is a blog-like post from the first version of my personal website, originally posted in early 2000… and reposted here for historical purposes!) This is my son Gabriel in a photo taken in Havana in December 1999. (The photo was taken by Gabriel’s mother, the other person in my life —Ruth Behar.)
(Note: this is a blog-like post from the first version of my personal website, originally posted in late 2000… and reposted here for historical purposes!) Have you seen the Car and Driver magazine for June 2000? Yes, this is our very own pug Brutus (in a photo by our neighbor and
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