Rodger Kamenetz Zoom Reading
Check out this reading with Rodger Kamenetz, as well as Kit Robinson and Rodrigo Toscano. March 24, 7 PM CDT. REGISTER NOW FOR THE ZOOM
Hank Lazer reading from COVID19 SUTRAS
Hank Lazer reading from COVID19 SUTRAS, Ernest & Hadley virtual event, Sept 3, 2020, featuring excepts from the work followed by Q&A.
Discovering a new world…
“Pure incomprehensible jibberish” is how a Goodreads reviewer classified Nabile Farès’ Exile and Helplessness, one of the three novels collected in the trilogy just released by Diálogos, Discovery of the New World. Despite this chilly reception on Goodreads, we consider the release of this work—for the first time in English, and for the first time […]
Michael Clayton interview and review
An interview with Michael Clayton and review of Dead Roosters and Other Stories is up at Trueself. An excerpt: Dead Roosters and Other Stories – recently published by Lavender Ink – is a striking collection of hardscrabble lives and dreams deferred. When I read Michael Clayton’s debut collection Larry Brown came to mind. In fact, […]
Two New Interviews
Two extensive and informative interviews have recently been published with Lavender Ink / Diálogos author/translators. First, Leslie Tate begins an interview with Mark Statman on the topics of Exile Home, fatherhood, translation, Mark’s move into happy exile from Brooklyn to Oaxaca, and most everything else. Part 1 of a long interview. Next, please […]
Hank Lazer reviewed by John Yau
John Yau’s thoughtful and thorough review of Hank Lazer’s COVID19 SUTRAS on the Massart blog: COVID19 SUTRAS is full of tenderness, empathy, anger, despair, sadness — the ping-pong ball of feelings bouncing this way and that. Lazer, in his isolation, slows down all of this so he can examine these states of being, while attempting […]
Amanda Boyden at the National Post
Amanda Boyden’s memoir, I Got the Dog: A Memoir of Rising is the topic of a front page article—an interview by Laurie Gough—in Canada’s National Post this morning. Read the article in the National Post: “Rape, infidelity and the detonation of a marriage: Novelist Amanda Boyden’s tumultuous life has led to new memoir”
Agadir reviewed at Kenyon Review
With his explosive style, surrealist imagery, and political critique, Khaïr-Eddine was among the most important avant-garde writers of his generation. Translators Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak forge a biting idiom in English to convey the apocalyptic world of Agadir, as well as the creative violence of its language. A substantial introduction by Khalid Lyamlahy serves […]
Hank Lazer’s COVID19 SUTRAS reviewed at Tears in the Fence
Ian Brinton reviews Hank Lazers COVID19SUTRAS at Tears in the Fence. What was immediately recognised by Rae Armantrout when commenting on the importance of this collection of poems was that it ‘brings us the news in the way that 18th century ballad broadsides did to Londoners’: ‘Quatrain by quatrain, Lazer sings the present world, its […]
Angelus at The Modern Novel
The Modern Novel site continues its focus on Diálogos books, this time with some long overdue attention to Ruxandra Cesereanu‘s Angelus. Like many of our authors, Cesereanu is little known in the US but well-known in her own country, Romania. Angelus is a thoughtful parable, complex and multi-faceted. Marius Conkan writes: …Angelus raises a series of questions […]
Announcing the release of our second novel by Fernando Contreras Castro, translated by Elaine S. Brooks
“Blue Note is a novel short in length but enormous in its depth…” says Benedicto Víquez Guzmán, and Diálogos is happy to announce the release of the English translation by Elaine S. Brooks this month. Fernando Contreras Castro continues his humane approach to the novel, this time with the story of a jazz group, told through […]
Única at The Modern Novel
The Modern Novel blog has posted an extensive review of Única Looking at the Sea, by Fernando Contreras-Castro, translated by Elaine S. Brooks. Many thanks to John Alvey for this review and the constant work he does with contemporary novels in translation.
Our time of Emergency
Emergency!, by Mohamed Hmoudane, our latest offering of poetry from North Africa, is a Small Press Distribution recommended book this month. Pick up the book, with full-color gravures by Bouchaïb Maoual, at SPD, or right here on the site.
Of Daewoo
François Bon, the French writer, translator, and activist, traveled to the Lorraine region of France in 2002 to study the effects of the sudden closing of two Daewoo factories there on the “factory town” of Fameck. In an inventive, imagined reportage combining fiction, theater, and interview forms, Bon writes a record of the social devastation […]
A novel of (more than) London
Despite its title, Miloš Crnjanski‘s A Novel of London is far more than just a novel about London. As its hero wanders the streets and the bureaucracy of the bombed-out city in the wake of WWII, he encounters a host of émigrés from around the world, whose stories also unfold. A pan-European portrait of class […]
Madame St. Clair
Madam St. Clair, Queen of Harlem is the story of a real-life woman’s rise from the slums of Martinique to the heights of Sugar Hill during the Harlem Renaissance. This remarkable story has been told before (for example in the 1997 film Hoodlum, in which Cicely Tyson plays Madam St. Clair). What is unique about Raphaël Confiant‘s […]
Coronavirus and the Press
As everyone probably already knows, concerns over the spread of COVID-19 have cancelled most public events this season. While the Crnjanski and London panel discussion went on as scheduled at the British Library (see below and also this write-up in the British press), the London Book Festival was cancelled, as was the New Orleans Poetry […]
Crnjanski at the London Book Fair
Miloš Crnjanski’s A Novel of London will be the subject of a panel at the London Book Fair, March 9, 2020, at the British Library. The panel will feature the novel’s translator Will Firth, Servian literary and cultural studies professor Dr. David Norris, Christina Pribicevic-Zoric, and Vesna Stanojevic. For those of you who will be at the LBF, […]
Zvonko Karanović Interview at Poetry International
Poetry International, in collaboration with 3:AM Magazine, is showcasing a group of amazing young European poets, including our own Zvonko Karanović, author of Sleepwalkers on a Picnic. Steven Fowler, the Editor of the Maintenant Interview Series, interviewed Zvonko recently, saying: Perhaps with some validation it is often suggested we currently inhabit an onanistic poetic culture. Mere decades ago there […]
Mihajlo “Misha” Djordjevic Book Prize
Rumor has it that Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry will be this year’s recipient of the Djordjevic Prize…
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