Podcast appearances and mentions of Ann Goldstein

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Italian author of Invisible Cities, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Cosmicomics and other celebrated novels, fables and short stories of the 20th Century. Calvino (1923 -1985) had a passionate belief that writing and art could make life better for everyone. Despite his parents being scientists, who dearly wanted him to be a scientist too, and his time fighting with the Partisans in Liguria in WWII during which his parents were held hostage by the Nazis, Calvino turned away from realism in his writing. Ideally, he said, he would have liked to be alive in the Enlightenment. He moved towards the fantastical, drawing on his childhood reading while collecting a huge number of the fables of Italy and translating them from dialect into Italian to enrich the shared culture of his fellow citizens. His fresh perspective on the novel continues to inspire writers and delight readers in Italian and in translations around the world.With Guido Bonsaver Professor of Italian Cultural History at the University of OxfordJennifer Burns Professor of Italian Studies at the University of WarwickAndBeatrice Sica Associate Professor in Italian Studies at UCLProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list: Elio Baldi, The Author in Criticism: Italo Calvino's Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2020)Elio Baldi and Cecilia Schwartz, Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities Around the World (Routledge, 2024)Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2003), especially the chapter ‘Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco: Postmodern Masters'James Butler, ‘Infinite Artichoke' (London Review of Books, vol. 45, no. 12, 15 June 2023)Italo Calvino (trans. Martin McLaughlin), The Path to the Spiders' Nests (first published 1947; Penguin Classics, 2009)Italo Calvino (trans. Mikki Taylor), The Baron in the Trees (first published 1957; Vintage Classics, 2021)Italo Calvino, Marcovaldo (first published 1963; Vintage Classics, 2023) Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver and Ann Goldstein), Difficult Loves and Other Stories (first published 1970; Vintage Classics, 2018)Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver), Invisible Cities (first published 1972; Vintage Classics, 1997)Italo Calvino (trans. Patrick Creagh), The Uses of Literature (first published 1980; Houghton Mifflin, 1987)Italo Calvino (trans. Geoffrey Brock), Six Memos for the Next Millennium (first published 1988; Penguin Classics, 2016) Italo Calvino (trans. Tim Parks), The Road to San Giovanni (first published 1990; HMH Books, 2014) Italo Calvino (trans. Ann Goldstein), The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays (Mariner Books Classics, 2023)Kathryn Hume, Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos (Clarendon Press, 1992)Martin McLaughlin, Italo Calvino (Edinburgh University Press, 1998)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

This July, The New York Times Book Review published a list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. The top choice was “My Brilliant Friend,” by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein.The book is the first novel in Ferrante's so-called Neapolitan quartet, which tracks the lifelong friendship between Lenù and Lila, two women from a rough neighborhood in Naples, Italy, even as family, relationships and work pull their lives in different directions.In this week's episode, MJ Franklin discusses the book with fellow editors Joumana Khatib, Emily Eakin and Gregory Cowles. 

The esteemed translator of Elena Ferrante and Pier Paolo Pasolini says of her work, “It is an impossible task, but nevertheless, it has to be done.” And she does it wonderfully.  Presented with Rizzoli Bookstore, Europa Editions. and Words Without Borders. Music: Beppe Gambetta.

ciao, brilliant friends! get ready to talk about translated fiction and dive into the world of Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend”. join us for a whirlwind discussion where we navigate through poorly pronounced Italian words, questionable cover designs, and the magical art of translated fiction.from dissecting the brilliance of Ann Goldstein's translation to brief mentions of Italian cultural icons like the Lizzie McGuire movie and Stefano from A Series of Unfortunate Events, we're leaving no stone unturned.can we relate to Lila and Elena's adventures as much as we relate to Lizzie's Roman holiday? let's find out!so grab your espresso and channel your inner Italian stallion as we laugh, cry, and discuss all things "My Brilliant Friend." tune in and let's get lost in translation together!synopsis music by William Kingspecial things mentioned in the episode:Have Italian Scholars figured out the identity of Elena Ferrante? The Unmasking of Elena Ferrante An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante - Whoever You AreWhy Australia Has Better Covers for Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Serieschoose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month!make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok.theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B.talk lit, get hit acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands and waterways where we record this podcast. further, we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future.

This month, Ali and Phil interview Ann Goldstein, a former editor at The New Yorker and the translator of works by, among others, Elena Ferrante and Primo Levi. We discuss Primo Levi's novel "The Truce" and the unique challenges of translating Holocaust narratives.

For this thirteenth edition of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon] that was held at the 7L library in Paris, CHANEL and Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassador and spokesperson for the House, invited novelist and essayist Rachel Cusk, along with model and friend of the House Naomi Campbell.Moderated by author and critic Erica Wagner, this encounter dedicated to the work of Rachel Cusk considers motherhood, how to explore personal stories through literature and the rework of the literary form it requires: “I think I always felt that my duty was to reality and how the novel could show that and contain it.”Extract from A Life's Work, Copyright © 2001, 2008, Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.Excerpt from A Life's Work: on Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2001 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved.Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 1993 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved.© Whitbread PLC.© Costa Book AwardsThe Country Life by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.The Country Life by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 1997 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved.In the Fold © Rachel Cusk, 2005.Arlington Park © Rachel Cusk, 2006.Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2006 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Outline Copyright © 2014 Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.Outline by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2014 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Transit by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2018. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.Transit by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2016 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Kudos by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.Kudos by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2018 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Extract from Second Place by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2021 Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.Excerpt from Second Place by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2021 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted/Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Extract from Second Place Copyright © 2021 Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.© Association Prix Femina.Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, © Faber & Faber, 2019.Extract from Aftermath: on marriage and separation by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2012 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Parade © Rachel Cusk, 2024.Parade by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2024 by Rachel Cusk. Forthcoming from Faber & Faber Ltd. and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June 2024. All Rights Reserved.From The New York Times Magazine. © 2016, The New York Times Company. All rights reserved. Used under licenseMrs Dalloway © Virginia Woolf, 1925Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, Translated by Ann Goldstein, © Europa, 2008. First published 2006 by Edizioni e/o as La figlia oscura La figlia oscura by Elena Ferrante © 2006 by Edizioni E/O.

For this thirteenth edition of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon] that was held at the 7L library in Paris, CHANEL and Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassador and spokesperson for the House, invited novelist and essayist Rachel Cusk, along with model and friend of the House Naomi Campbell.Moderated by author and critic Erica Wagner, this encounter dedicated to the work of Rachel Cusk considers motherhood, how to explore personal stories through literature and the rework of the literary form it requires: “I think I always felt that my duty was to reality and how the novel could show that and contain it.”Extract from A Life's Work, Copyright © 2001, 2008, Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.Excerpt from A Life's Work: on Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2001 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved.Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 1993 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved.© Whitbread PLC.© Costa Book AwardsThe Country Life by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.The Country Life by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 1997 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved.In the Fold © Rachel Cusk, 2005.Arlington Park © Rachel Cusk, 2006.Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2006 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Outline Copyright © 2014 Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.Outline by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2014 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Transit by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2018. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.Transit by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2016 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Kudos by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.Kudos by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2018 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Extract from Second Place by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2021 Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.Excerpt from Second Place by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2021 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted/Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Extract from Second Place Copyright © 2021 Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.© Association Prix Femina.Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, © Faber & Faber, 2019.Extract from Aftermath: on marriage and separation by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2012 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.Parade © Rachel Cusk, 2024.Parade by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2024 by Rachel Cusk. Forthcoming from Faber & Faber Ltd. and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June 2024. All Rights Reserved.From The New York Times Magazine. © 2016, The New York Times Company. All rights reserved. Used under licenseMrs Dalloway © Virginia Woolf, 1925Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, Translated by Ann Goldstein, © Europa, 2008. First published 2006 by Edizioni e/o as La figlia oscura La figlia oscura by Elena Ferrante © 2006 by Edizioni E/O.

Ann Goldstein has been an editor and the head of copy desk at New Yorker Magazine. She worked for the magazine for over 40 years. She has translated works of Famous Italian Writers like Elena Ferrante and Paolo Pasolini. She is the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN Renato Poggioli prize, and awards from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was the panel chair for translated fiction at the US National Book Award in 2022.In this episode, She spoke about her stint at the New Yorker, her translation of Elena Ferrante's novels, editing Primo Levi's complete works and the Italian writer Marina Jarre whose Italian novel she translated into English as 'Distant Fathers'* For your Valuable feedback on this Episode - Please click the below linkhttps://bit.ly/3NmJ31YHarshaneeyam on Spotify App –http://bit.ly/harshaneeyam Harshaneeyam on Apple App –http://apple.co/3qmhis5 *Contact us - harshaneeyam@gmail.com ***Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by Interviewees in interviews conducted by Harshaneeyam Podcast are those of the Interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Harshaneeyam Podcast. Any content provided by Interviewees is of their opinion and is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone or anything.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrpChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Domenico Scarpa"Calvino fa la conchiglia"La costruzione di uno scrittoreHoepli Editorehttps://hoeplieditore.itCalvino fa la conchiglia è un libro-sfera e un libro-mosaico. È un libro coerente e composito che restituisce tutto Italo Calvino, anzi, tutti gli Italo Calvino che sotto questo medesimo nome si sono presentati al pubblico in forme sempre diverse, sorprendenti ogni volta.Calvino fa la conchiglia quando scrive un racconto autobiografico dove lui compare sotto forma di mollusco dei primordi, applicato al suo scoglio e impegnato a fabbricarsi il guscio: e vuole che gli venga solido per proteggere la sua polpa, e che abbia forma armoniosa e colori limpidi in modo che lo ammiri chi lo guarda.Per tutta la vita Calvino ha fatto una conchiglia, per tutta la vita ha costruito con i suoi racconti, i suoi saggi, i suoi romanzi, i suoi testi di genere inafferrabile, la gioia fisica e mentale di chi legge.Per tutta la vita non ha mai interrotto la costruzione di se stesso. A cento anni dalla sua nascita è il momento di raccontare questa storia, e di raccontarla tutta quanta.Domenico Scarpa (1965) è il consulente letterario del Centro studi Primo Levi di Torino. Ha pubblicato Italo Calvino (Bruno Mondadori, 1999), Storie avventurose di libri necessari (Gaffi, 2010), Natalia Ginzburg. Pour un portrait de la tribu (Cahiers de l'Hôtel de Galliffet, 2010), Uno. Doppio ritratto di Franco Lucentini (:duepunti, 2011) e, con Ann Goldstein, In un'altra lingua (Lezioni Primo Levi - Einaudi, 2015). Ha curato il terzo volume della Grande Opera Atlante della letteratura italiana. Dal Romanticismo a oggi, edito da Einaudi (2012) e, con Roberta Mori, Album Primo Levi (2017). Inoltre, la raccolta delle Lezioni Primo Levi (Mondadori, 2019) e svariate antologie, cicli teatrali, mostre e documentari televisivi. Nel 2019 ha curato per i «Meridiani» Mondadori le Opere di bottega di Fruttero & Lucentini, mentre per Einaudi cura opere di Natalia Ginzburg e, per Sellerio, i romanzi di Graham Greene. Con Einaudi ha pubblicato anche Bibliografia di Primo Levi (2022).ùùùùIL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

Recorded on March 22, 2023 Book talk starts at 29:20 Come join us knitting or crocheting your projects with CABLES! That's right, cables.  Come on over to the Cables KAL Chatter Thread to check out the rules and chat about your plans.  Dates are now until 5/15/23.   Virtual Knitting Group via Zoom EVENTS Tracie and Barb will be at: The Northern California Knitting Retreat (NoCKRs) - April 27-30, 2023 at the St Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista, California.  We have 1 open spot - message Tracie at 2knitlitchicks@gmail.com for info and the registration form. Fiber Frolic - Saturday, May 27, 2023, 10 am – 4 pm at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville, CA The TKGA Retreat 2023 - November 2-5, 2023 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina   KNITTING Tracie finished: 2 Knitted Knockers in Cascade Ultra Pima Vanilla socks in Western Sky Knits Merino 17 Light held double 10 knitted headbands, all knit from stash - patterns used: Smidge Headband by Angela Tennant Lova by Chicory Sticks Fiana by Connie Stults Godmother Headband by Amanda Rosa Star Stitch Headband by Jessica Flowers and various patterns from 150 Knitted Trims by Lesley Stanfield   Barb finished: Hermione's Everyday Socks by Erica Leuder using Canon Hand Dyes sock set Blushing Braids Beanie by Amy Kate Sutherland, using Valley Yarns Northampton 4 Knockers   Tracie cast on: Donner by Elizabeth Doherty in Cloudborn Fibers Pima Cotton DK in Spring Tiny Dancer top by Laura Dean in Shaggy Bear Farms SW Merino & Tussah Silk Fingering for Lexi   And continues to work on: Zephyr Mark II by Celia Cahill in Laneras Barefoot in Coral Vanilla socks in Emma's Yarn Super Silky in Hot Tamale   Barb is working on: Low-key Cowl by Elizabeth Smith, using Cascade 220 in the green colorway (very old stash) Knitted Knockers   And has cast on: WYS Vanilla Socks, using West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4-Ply Self Striping in the Peacock colorway Ilha pullover by Orlane Sucche, using Greenwood Fiber Indulgence (merino, cashmere and silk). Barley Hat by Tin Can Knits using worsted weight bear yarn   She frogged: Winters Beach by Andrea Mowry, using Madelinetosh Tosh DK in the Tart colorway    BOOKS Tracie read: The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him by Leslie Ghiglieri - 3 stars Edge of Normal by Carla Norton - 4 stars (but 1 star for narration!) The Dentist by Tim Sullivan - 4.5 stars The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan - 4 stars A Girl Returned by Ann Goldstein - 4.5 stars Girls Who Lie by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir - 4 stars   Tracie and Barb highly recommend: Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles - 5 stars   Barb read: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt - 3.5 stars Other Parents by Sarah Stovell - 4 stars A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins - 4 stars The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden - 4 stars   Tracie recommends AMC+ app/channel - subscribe through Amazon Prime or go to amcplus.com

This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I am very pleased to share a conversation with acclaimed critic Merve Emre on the beloved Italian writer Italo Calvino, known for his genre-defying stories and novels like Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler. Merve Emre is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, associate professor of English at Oxford University, and currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University.   In a recent essay in The New Yorker, “The Worlds of Italo Calvino,” Merve Emre calls Calvino, “word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century.” It is an enthusiasm we both share. Indeed, we learn that for both of us, reading Calvino novels set us on a path of making a career out of talking to people about books.    Emre's essay on Calvino was occasioned by the new publication in English of a book of his essays, The Written World and the Unwritten World, translated by Ann Goldstein. 2023 also marks the centenary year of Calvino's birth and here at the Library our Classics Book Discussion celebrated with a recent series on his work.    Whether you are already a Calvino-obsessive or new to his work, you will hear a passionate consideration of how an author creates communications and desires so wonderful (and so thwarted!) that you can not help turning page after page. Appropriately for a discussion of this metafictional novelist, this episode also becomes a conversation about literary conversation itself. Another recent New Yorker piece by Emre considers the fate of literary studies today. I could not help asking her if Calvino's utopian vision of a world of self-appointed readers might  help us revive the literary world itself.  You can check out books by Merve Emre and titles by Italo Calvino here at the library. Or check out The New Yorker, physical copies or through our ebook/emagazine service Libby. Emre is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2017), The Ferrante Letters (Columbia University Press, 2019), and The Personality Brokers (New York, 2018). She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (MIT, 2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (Liveright, 2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (Norton, 2021). Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and the London Review of Books to American Literature, American Literary History, PMLA, and Modernism/modernity. Merve is on Twitter @mervatim.  We hope you enjoy our 58th interview episode! Each month (or so) we release an episode featuring a conversation with an author, artist, or other notable guests from Chicagoland or around the world. Learn more about the podcast on our podcast page. You can listen to all of our episodes in the player below or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments and feedback—please send to podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. The Deerfield Public Library Podcast is hosted by Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the library. We welcome your comments and feedback--please send to: podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. More info at: http://deerfieldlibrary.org/podcast Follow us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube 

Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak to Laura Poitras about her latest documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, recently nominated for an Academy Award. The film explores the efforts of celebrated photographer Nan Goldin and a group of activists to compel arts institutions to refuse donations from the Sackler pharmaceutical family and remove their names from the walls of the many exhibits and museums they fund in recognition of the damage their highly lucrative opioid OxyContin has wreaked in communities across America. Blending an intimate and revealing look at Goldin's with footage of the group's actions against the Sacklers, this moving documentary offers a powerful account of art, activism, and the struggle to be heard above the clamor of wealth and the cultural and political power it concentrates. Also, Ann Goldstein, translator of Alba de Cespedes' Forbidden Notebook, returns to recommend The Cazalet Chronicles, a five book series, by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak to Laura Poitras about her latest documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, recently nominated for an Academy Award. The film explores the efforts of celebrated photographer Nan Goldin and a group of activists to compel arts institutions to refuse donations from the Sackler pharmaceutical family and remove their names from the walls of the many exhibits and museums they fund in recognition of the damage their highly lucrative opioid OxyContin has wreaked in communities across America. Blending an intimate and revealing look at Goldin's with footage of the group's actions against the Sacklers, this moving documentary offers a powerful account of art, activism, and the struggle to be heard above the clamor of wealth and the cultural and political power it concentrates. Also, Ann Goldstein, translator of Alba de Cespedes' Forbidden Notebook, returns to recommend The Cazalet Chronicles, a five book series, by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with the celebrated translator Ann Goldstein, whose most recent translated work is a novel called Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes. Ann Goldstein is a former editor at the New Yorker, where she worked from 1974 to 2017. She began translating Italian literature in the '90s and in 2005 she translated Elena Ferrante's Days of Abandonment. She went on to translate Ferrante's entire Neapolitan trilogy, starting with My Brilliant Friend. Goldstein's latest translation, Forbidden Notebook, is a novel written by the Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Céspedes. First published in Italy in the 1950s, the novel centers around a woman who buys a notebook on a whim, and begins to furtively write in it, hiding it and herself from her husband and her children. Through the notebook, she begins to learn more about her desire, her guilt, and the sacrifices she has made for her family, her past, and her future. Also, Maggie Millner, author of Couplets, returns to recommend The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme by Cat Fitzpatrick.

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with the celebrated translator Ann Goldstein, whose most recent translated work is a novel called Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes. Ann Goldstein is a former editor at the New Yorker, where she worked from 1974 to 2017. She began translating Italian literature in the '90s and in 2005 she translated Elena Ferrante's Days of Abandonment. She went on to translate Ferrante's entire Neapolitan trilogy, starting with My Brilliant Friend. Goldstein's latest translation, Forbidden Notebook, is a novel written by the Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Céspedes. First published in Italy in the 1950s, the novel centers around a woman who buys a notebook on a whim, and begins to furtively write in it, hiding it and herself from her husband and her children. Through the notebook, she begins to learn more about her desire, her guilt, and the sacrifices she has made for her family, her past, and her future. Also, Maggie Millner, author of Couplets, returns to recommend The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme by Cat Fitzpatrick.

In our season finale, Ann Goldstein, renowned translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, gives a master class in the art and business of translation. Ann speaks to Duke scholar Saskia Ziolkowski and host Aarthi Vadde about being the face of the Ferrante novels, and the curious void that she came to fill in the public imagination in light of Ferrante's anonymity. In a profession long characterized by invisibility, Ann reflects on her own celebrity and the changing orthodoxies of the book business. Where once having a translator's name on a book cover would be sure to kill interest, now there are movements to display author's and translator's names together. Ann reads an excerpt in Italian from Primo Levi's The Truce, followed by her re-translation of the autobiographical story for The Complete Works of Primo Levi. She then offers an extraordinary walk through of her decision-making process by honing in on the difficulty of translating one key word “scomposti.” Listening to Ann delineate and discard choices, we are reminded of Italo Calvino's assertion (echoed by Ann) that translation is indeed the closest way to read. This season's signature question on “untranslatables” yields another brilliant meditation on word choice and the paradoxical task of arriving at precise approximations. Plus, Ann and Saskia reveal some of their favorite Italian women writers, several of whom Ann has brought into English for the first time. Mentions: --Elena Ferrante --Jennifer Croft --Primo Levi, The Periodic Table --Primo Levi, The Truce, from The Complete Works of Primo Levi --Stuart Woolf, original translator of Levi, If This is the Man --Catherine Gallagher, Nobody's Story --Italo Calvino --Marina Jarre, Return to Latvia --Elsa Morante, Arturo's Island --Emily Wilson, only female translator of The Odyssey --Jenny McPhee --Cesare Garboli Find out more about Novel Dialogue and its hosts and organizers here. Contact us, get that exact quote from a transcript, and explore many more conversations between novelists and critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/language

In our season finale, Ann Goldstein, renowned translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, gives a master class in the art and business of translation. Ann speaks to Duke scholar Saskia Ziolkowski and host Aarthi Vadde about being the face of the Ferrante novels, and the curious void that she came to fill in the public imagination in light of Ferrante's anonymity. In a profession long characterized by invisibility, Ann reflects on her own celebrity and the changing orthodoxies of the book business. Where once having a translator's name on a book cover would be sure to kill interest, now there are movements to display author's and translator's names together. Ann reads an excerpt in Italian from Primo Levi's The Truce, followed by her re-translation of the autobiographical story for The Complete Works of Primo Levi. She then offers an extraordinary walk through of her decision-making process by honing in on the difficulty of translating one key word “scomposti.” Listening to Ann delineate and discard choices, we are reminded of Italo Calvino's assertion (echoed by Ann) that translation is indeed the closest way to read. This season's signature question on “untranslatables” yields another brilliant meditation on word choice and the paradoxical task of arriving at precise approximations. Plus, Ann and Saskia reveal some of their favorite Italian women writers, several of whom Ann has brought into English for the first time. Mentions: --Elena Ferrante --Jennifer Croft --Primo Levi, The Periodic Table --Primo Levi, The Truce, from The Complete Works of Primo Levi --Stuart Woolf, original translator of Levi, If This is the Man --Catherine Gallagher, Nobody's Story --Italo Calvino --Marina Jarre, Return to Latvia --Elsa Morante, Arturo's Island --Emily Wilson, only female translator of The Odyssey --Jenny McPhee --Cesare Garboli Find out more about Novel Dialogue and its hosts and organizers here. Contact us, get that exact quote from a transcript, and explore many more conversations between novelists and critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In our season finale, Ann Goldstein, renowned translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, gives a master class in the art and business of translation. Ann speaks to Duke scholar Saskia Ziolkowski and host Aarthi Vadde about being the face of the Ferrante novels, and the curious void that she came to fill in the public imagination in light of Ferrante's anonymity. In a profession long characterized by invisibility, Ann reflects on her own celebrity and the changing orthodoxies of the book business. Where once having a translator's name on a book cover would be sure to kill interest, now there are movements to display author's and translator's names together. Ann reads an excerpt in Italian from Primo Levi's The Truce, followed by her re-translation of the autobiographical story for The Complete Works of Primo Levi. She then offers an extraordinary walk through of her decision-making process by honing in on the difficulty of translating one key word “scomposti.” Listening to Ann delineate and discard choices, we are reminded of Italo Calvino's assertion (echoed by Ann) that translation is indeed the closest way to read. This season's signature question on “untranslatables” yields another brilliant meditation on word choice and the paradoxical task of arriving at precise approximations. Plus, Ann and Saskia reveal some of their favorite Italian women writers, several of whom Ann has brought into English for the first time. Mentions: --Elena Ferrante --Jennifer Croft --Primo Levi, The Periodic Table --Primo Levi, The Truce, from The Complete Works of Primo Levi --Stuart Woolf, original translator of Levi, If This is the Man --Catherine Gallagher, Nobody's Story --Italo Calvino --Marina Jarre, Return to Latvia --Elsa Morante, Arturo's Island --Emily Wilson, only female translator of The Odyssey --Jenny McPhee --Cesare Garboli Find out more about Novel Dialogue and its hosts and organizers here. Contact us, get that exact quote from a transcript, and explore many more conversations between novelists and critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In our season finale, Ann Goldstein, renowned translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, gives a master class in the art and business of translation. Ann speaks to Duke scholar Saskia Ziolkowski and host Aarthi Vadde about being the face of the Ferrante novels, and the curious void that she came to fill in the public imagination in light of Ferrante's anonymity. In a profession long characterized by invisibility, Ann reflects on her own celebrity and the changing orthodoxies of the book business. Where once having a translator's name on a book cover would be sure to kill interest, now there are movements to display author's and translator's names together. Ann reads an excerpt in Italian from Primo Levi's The Truce, followed by her re-translation of the autobiographical story for The Complete Works of Primo Levi. She then offers an extraordinary walk through of her decision-making process by honing in on the difficulty of translating one key word “scomposti.” Listening to Ann delineate and discard choices, we are reminded of Italo Calvino's assertion (echoed by Ann) that translation is indeed the closest way to read. This season's signature question on “untranslatables” yields another brilliant meditation on word choice and the paradoxical task of arriving at precise approximations. Plus, Ann and Saskia reveal some of their favorite Italian women writers, several of whom Ann has brought into English for the first time. Mentions: --Elena Ferrante --Jennifer Croft --Primo Levi, The Periodic Table --Primo Levi, The Truce, from The Complete Works of Primo Levi --Stuart Woolf, original translator of Levi, If This is the Man --Catherine Gallagher, Nobody's Story --Italo Calvino --Marina Jarre, Return to Latvia --Elsa Morante, Arturo's Island --Emily Wilson, only female translator of The Odyssey --Jenny McPhee --Cesare Garboli Find out more about Novel Dialogue and its hosts and organizers here. Contact us, get that exact quote from a transcript, and explore many more conversations between novelists and critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Ann Goldstein has been translating the work of celebrated Italian author Elena Ferrante for close to two decades. However, Goldstein has never met or even spoken to the pseudonymous author, and is only able to communicate through her publisher. Yet, the success of Ferrante's work in the English-speaking world has made Goldstein one of the best-known translators in America today. This unusual collaboration comes into view again this month with the release of Ferrante's new title In The Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing. Billed by The Guardian as one of the most anticipated titles of 2022, the book is comprised of four essays that offer a rare look at the origins of Ferrante's literary powers, encompassing both her influences and her struggles. Goldstein recently retired from The New Yorker, where she worked for 45 years, for the most part presiding over the copy editing department.

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss The World Gives Way, Blood Like Magic, The Box in the Woods, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien The Secret Garden: The Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden and Hanna Luechtefeld Bath Haus by PJ Vernon Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury The Tangleroot Palace: Stories by Marjorie Liu  The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton  The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious) by Maureen Johnson The Hellion's Waltz: Feminine Pursuits by Olivia Waite WHAT WE'RE READING: The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson Dune by Frank Hebert MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin She Memes Well: Essays by Quinta Brunson Factory Summers by Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher (translator), Rob Aspinall (translator) And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier, Rhonda Mullins (translator) The Queer Bible: Essays by Jack Guinness  The Cape Doctor by E. J. Levy Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey The Blind Accordionist by C.D. Rose Message in the Sand by Hannah McKinnon Letters to My White Male Friends by Dax-Devlon Ross The Hollywood Spiral by Paul Neilan Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams Learning to Talk to Plants by Marta Orriols, Mara Faye Lethem (translator) The Godmothers by Camille Aubray  The Cruelest Mercy by Natalie Mae  Shutter by Melissa Larsen The Brittanys by Brittany Ackerman And Then the Gray Heaven by RE Katz Punks in Peoria Making a Scene in the American Heartland by Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett AFROSURF by Mami Wata and Selema Masekela No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper  The Summer of Lost Letters by Hannah Reynolds  Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir by Ursula Burns Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America by Scott Borchert Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell  Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy Site Fidelity: Stories by Claire Boyles The Maidens by Alex Michaelides The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl by Katherine Dysktra The Layover by Lacie Waldon Mischief and Mayhem #1: Born to Be Bad by Ken Lamug Maps for the Getaway by Annie England Noblin The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas (translator) The Stars of Whistling Ridge by Cindy Baldwin Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain—And How They Guide You by Rebecca Schwarzlose Lucia by Alex Pheby The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee Sisters of the Snake by Sarena and Sasha Nanua The Playwright's House by Dariel Suarez All Together Now by Matthew Norman The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc Last Comes the Raven: And Other Stories by Italo Calvino, Ann Goldstein (translator) The Transparency of Time by Leonardo Padura, Anna Kushner (translator) Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever by L. Jon Wertheim The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron Inside Man by K. J. Parker Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of by Kristin Levine The Existence of Bea Pearl by Candice Marley Conner The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan Norris You're So Dead by Ash Parsons The Ice Lion by Kathleen O'Neal Gear How to Survive America: A Prescription by D. L. Hughley and Doug Moe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Since Interpreter of Maladies was published in 1999, Jhumpa Lahiri has written three works of fiction in English, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and the Booker shortlisted, The Lowland. She has also written a work of nonfiction, In Other Words, which was the first book she wrote in Italian, translated into English by Ann Goldstein. In addition Jhumpa edited The Penguin Book of Short Italian Stories, highlighting a thrilling selection of Italian writers, some of whom hadn't been seen in English before. She has also translated various books from Italian including Domenico Starnone's Trick. Jhumpa received the Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies and numerous other awards for her writing including the PEN/Hemingway Award; the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; and a National Humanities Medal, awarded by Barak Obama. She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Whereabouts is Jhumpa's new book, her first novel written in Italian and this time, she also translated it into English. There's a grace and a gentle precision to her pared back style as she looks at every day moments in specific places, and the solitude, frustrations and intimacies of being human. 

A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator. “I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The word ‘mama' stuck in my throat like a toad. And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is. It is not mine in the way one might have good health, a safe place, certainty.” Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of individuals whom she has never met and who seem anything but welcoming. Thus begins a new life, one of struggle, tension, and conflict, especially between the young girl and her mother. But in her relationship with Adriana and Vincenzo, two of her newly acquired siblings, she will find the strength to start again and to build a new and enduring sense of self. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

AudioFile’s Michele Cobb and host Jo Reed are discussing the 2021 Audie Awards all week. In today’s episode, they are celebrating the excellent nominees for Best Female Narrator, recognizing them for their excellent work on compelling audiobooks‚ and toasting this year’s winner. The finalists for the 2021 Audie Award for Best Female Narrator are: THE CITY WE BECAME by N.K. Jemisin, read by Robin Miles, published by Hachette Audio THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker, read by Samira Wiley, published by Audible, Inc. THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS by Elena Ferrante, read by Ann Goldstein, published by Random House Audio ONE BY ONE by Ruth Ware, read by Imogen Church, published by Simon & Schuster Audio SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid, read by Nicole Lewis, published by Penguin Audio Congratulations to this year’s winner of Best Female Narrator, Robin Miles for THE CITY WE BECAME by N.K. Jemisin. Hear a clip from the winning audiobook and learn more about this captivating title that also took home the Fantasy award. Find a full list of 2021 Audie Award finalists and winners at theaudies.com Support comes from Oasis Audio, publisher of The Last Queen. Simon Vance narrates a revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth and the royal Windsor family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ann Goldstein will share her experience as a translator of Ferrante, Levi, Pasolini and other Italian authors by focusing on the challenges as well as the accomplishments of one of the world’s most visible translators of our times.In this episode, you will listen to:(1:30) Introduction (7:00) How she selects her projects and her dream texts(9:00) Affinity for women’s writing(11:00) Reflections on the way you entered into Italian literacy(14:00) Primo Levi(18:00) Dealing with notions that do not have a direct, one-to-one correspondence into English(24:00) Has she ever thought of translating Italian poetry?(25:30) Pasolini(29:00) Collab with Jenny McPhee (31:50) General question on translating Ferrante(33:20) The challenges oftranslating concepts as “frantumaglia” or “smarginatura.”(37:00) Translation of the title: “My Brilliant Friend”(40:00) Might Ferrante be a translator herself?(45:00) The success of the Neapolitan Quartet with English-language readers (52:00) The Lying Life of Adults (54:00) First-person narratives (58:00) Adulthood and sexual initiation in The Lying Life of Adults.(1:00:00) Industry Question. Visibility of the translator.(1:02:00) Did she propose the Morante to the publisher?(1:04:00) Discrepancies in translating the last novel of the Quartet.Follow us on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/italian.minds/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/italian-minds/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/italianminds.podcast

Building on our show in 2017 with Dana Spiotta that looked at books about film, this month we want to explore what happens when books turn into films. We’ll be asking why literature is often a source for cinema, thinking about what the best adaptations get right, and remembering some of our favourite movies inspired by books. Our guest is author Niven Govinden, whose sixth novel, Diary of a Film, unfolds over the course of three days in an unnamed Italian city, where an auteur director has come to premier his latest film at a festival. It’s a love letter to the cinema, and an intense meditation on the creative process, artistic control, queer love and flaneurs. So, grab your popcorn - it will almost be like sitting in a crowded movie theatre again! Our recommended film adaptations: Octavia: Lady Macbeth, directed by William Oldroyd (https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/lady-macbeth-william-oldroyd-period-film-bones) based on the novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov: https://www.nyrb.com/products/lady-macbeth-of-mtsensk?variant=32796791701641 Carrie: Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve (https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/11/13587262/arrival-movie-review-amy-adams-denis-villeneuve) based on the short story Story Of Your Life by Ted Chiang: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538163/arrival-stories-of-your-life-mti-by-ted-chiang/ General recommendations: Octavia: The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781933372006/the-days-of-abandonment Niven: Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604955/romance-in-marseille-by-claude-mckay-edited-by-gary-edward-holcomb-and-william-j-maxwell/ Carrie: Having and Being Had by Eula Biss https://www.faber.co.uk/books/non-fiction/9780571346424-having-and-being-had.html We'll be launching our Patreon next month so keep an eye on our socials if you'd like to become a patron and support our work! Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction This episode is sponsored by Picador: https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador

Jenny records across the sea to talk to artist and English teacher Tricia Deegan. If you hear any words that seem stretched out, blame the internet under the ocean! I did what I could in the editing but there are a few unavoidable blips. Nothing too bad, so please enjoy this new guest to the show.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 207: Innocent and Ruthless Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonFarewell, Ghosts by Nadia Terranova; translated by Ann GoldsteinRemarkable Creatures by Tracy ChevalierTravels with a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-SmithThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonOther mentions:Leila Slimani MaupassantDelpine De ViganThe Years by Annie ErnauxBlindness by Jose SaramagoDracula by Bram StokerElena FerranteGrimm's Fairy TalesThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Essex Serpent by Sarah PerryDarwinBurning Bright by Tracy Chevalier (William Blake)The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy ChevalierNative Son by Richard WrightCaste by Isabel WilkersonBecoming by Michelle ObamaThese Truths by Jill LePoreStamped from the Beginning by Ibram X KendiStamped! Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X Kendi and Jason ReynoldsA Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole GrossKim JiYoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie ChangCity of Girls by Elizabeth GilbertThe Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. SchwabRelated episodes:Episode 071 - Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest with ScottEpisode 098 - Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened with Bryan BibbStalk us online: Tricia is @trishadeegan on InstagramJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors.

Daniel Hahn and Ann Goldstein are translators, inhabiting a strange world between creation and publication, but with their own literary and linguistic creativity shaping the final form. Goldstein has been translating for decades, turning the words of Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi and Jhumpa Lahiri, amongst others, into English. She works prolifically, and in this episode Daniel, himself a prize-winning author and literary judge, spends time with her over the course of three days in 2018 as she translates an award-winning Italian book. Daniel Hahn discusses with her how to know where to translate exactly and where to get the sense, how to translate phrases which have no translation, and shares experiences about the politics of translation. He finds out how this literary great came to translating, how she chooses the books she wishes to translate and to what extent she acts – as so many translators do – as an advocate for foreign-language books to English-language publishers. And implicit in all this is what is core to the translator’s art – intercession between cultures, sharing ideas and stories which would otherwise go unshared.

What is it about sisters? Loving, competitive, sometimes incredibly sinister... this month, we're thinking about sisterhood, and all those memorable sisters that fill the pages of literature with their rivalries and alliances, adoration and rebellion. From Little Women to My Sister the Serial Killer, we're getting into why this familial bond is so potent in storytelling. With the days drawing in and Halloween nearly upon us, we're also thinking about how sisters can be uncanny, and we couldn’t have a better author guest to help us explore the spookiness of the sisterly bond: Daisy Johnson, whose new novel, Sisters, is about two girls who are disturbingly close, and what happens when they move with their mother to a crumbling house on the seaside after they cause a terrible incident at their school. We dedicate this show to sisters everywhere - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Recommendations on the theme, Sisters: Octavia: Atonement by Ian McEwan http://www.ianmcewan.com/books/atonement.html Carrie: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133/133431/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle/9780141191454.html General Recommendations: Octavia: A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/a-mans-place Daisy: Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin https://oneworld-publications.com/little-eyes.html Carrie: The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781933372426/the-lost-daughter Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram:

Here at Literary Friction, we believe translation is both an art and a superpower; it gives us access to voices and stories from all over the world, and it's a rolling theme we keep coming back to on the show. What makes a good translation? Are translators finally starting to get the recognition they deserve? Why are there still so few translated titles published in English? This month, helping us answer these questions and more is Ann Goldstein, translator, editor and former head of the copy department at The New Yorker, whose work translating Italian author Elena Ferrante's bestselling novels has had a big impact on the popularity of translated literature in the English-speaking world. Ann joined us to talk about her career and her translation of Ferrante's latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults. We hope you enjoy it. Recommended literature in translation: Octavia: A Heart So White by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/183/183889/a-heart-so-white/9780141199955.html Carrie: The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside https://www.quartetbooks.co.uk/shop/the-wall/ General Recommendations: Octavia: A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti, translated by Fionn Petch https://charcopress.com/bookstore/musical-offering Ann: The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/shirley-hazzard/the-bay-of-noon/9781860494543/ Carrie: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/maggie-ofarrell/hamnet/9781472223838/ Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction

Ann Goldstein was just as excited as the most fervent Ferrante fanatics when she found out that Elena Ferrante was writing her first novel since the Neapolitan quartet concluded in 2015. As Ferrante’s longtime English translator, Goldstein was tipped off that the author might be writing a new work of fiction over five years ago. But the enigmatic figure — ”Elena Ferrante” is a pseudonym, as she’s never revealed herself publicly — writes on her own timeline. “She writes for herself. When she thinks that the book is finished then she will hand it in. If she doesn’t think it’s finished, she will not hand it in,” Goldstein tells Bustle of awaiting the manuscript. “Over those five years [the publishers] thought that she was writing something, but she never finished it. So [when] they told me this was the real thing I was really excited.” The result of Ferrante’s nearly half a decade of work is The Lying Life of Adults, which tells the story of Giovanna, a young woman who overhears her father saying that she is beginning to look more and more like her mysterious and controversial aunt Vittoria every day. The revelation sets Giovanna off on a quest to meet her aunt, leading her to discover a grittier, more problematic side of her hometown. While many were elated to find out The Lying Life of Adults would transport them back to the cultural milieu of Lenù and Lila’s Naples, Goldstein’s interests were piqued elsewhere. “The differences were more interesting to me than the similarities,” she explains. “It’s a very different [city] from the Naples of the Neapolitan Novels. You are starting off in a very middle class area and there’s a divide between this Naples and the poor working-class Naples [from the] novels.” The book’s publication marks the 15th anniversary of Ferrante and Goldstein’s creative partnership, during which the two women have grown to become literary giants in their own right. With Ferrante scarcely giving interviews, Goldstein has served as an avatar of sorts for the author, filling in at press events, speaking with the media for stories like this one, and inspiring a fandom all her own. But Goldstein makes the delineation between her and Ferrante clear. “I do not speak for the author. I did not create the characters, I did not write the book,” she says. “I can only really speak about the language [and] my relationship to it.” Ahead of The Lying Life of Adults’ release, Bustle spoke with Goldstein about the word “Smarginatura,” emailing with Ferrante, and why she can’t quit the New Yorker’s style guide. I make a really fast, ugly rough draft. I look up the [Italian] words and if something doesn’t make sense, I just let it go. Then I gradually refine it in the second draft. I’ll usually print it out and do one revise on paper, then again on the screen. I’ll often put two or three different choices for a word into the manuscript. Then I just keep going over it, and over it, and over it until it seems right. Because it’s important to get the right [translation for a] word, but it’s also important to get the word that makes sense [in a larger context]. Sometimes I’ll spend 20 minutes, a half an hour, or days trying to come up with the right word. The famous word that people talk about [me translating] is “Smarginatura.” [It] means dissolving boundaries or margins disappearing. I researched the word and I read several different derivations, but basically [the word] was having to do with the edges of the pages bleeding off the margins. It was literally like the margins of the page dissolving. So I would just think of all the different combinations. I don’t think I even had “dissolving” [in the translation] in the beginning, I just kept trying different combinations. I’m reading a book by an Italian writer called Emanuele Trevi, which isn’t translated in English. It’s called L'allegra brigata. I translated one of his books called Something Written. He writes these memoirs with literary criticism all mixed in together. I just read The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard, which is about Naples actually, and it’s a wonderful book. I worked at the New Yorker [as the head of the copy department] for many years and we had a list of banned words and phrases there, which is still in my writing brain. I spell words with double letters as the New Yorker does. So "cancelled" or "marvellous", "travelled", things like that. There’s also certain grammatical things that I still mostly do — like the way the New Yorker uses commas or where they use hyphens. At some point, I forget if it was after the first or second book, she said that she trusted me. So I just thought that was sufficient. This interview has been edited and condensed.

This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Transcendent Kingdom, We Are Not Free, Mill Town, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Size Zero by Abigail Mangin, and Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s THE HOLLOW ONES. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Winter Counts, Spellbound, The Great Offshore Grounds, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, MIRA Books and Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks, and Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor, now available from Algonquin Books. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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Hanley  The Mother Code by Carole Stivers American Dreams: Portraits & Stories of a Country by Ian Brown Where Dreams Descend: A Novel (Kingdom of Cards) by Janella Angeles The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price Murder Most Puzzling: 20 Mysterious Cases to Solve (Murder Mystery Game, Adult Board Games, Mystery Games for Adults) by Stephanie von Reiswitz  The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media–from the Founding Fathers to Fake News by Harold Holzer The Last Great Road Bum: A Novel by Héctor Tobar Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm–and Built a New Life by Sarah Frey  The Wrong Mr. Darcy by Evelyn Lozada The Family Clause: A Novel by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Alice Menzies (translator) El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzmán by Alan Feuer The Burning Kingdoms (The Smoke Thieves) by Sally Green Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, Rovina Cai (Illustrator) Kodi by Jared Cullum Midnight at the Barclay Hotel by Fleur Bradley, Xavier Bonet The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra The Woods by Vanessa Savage  When I Was You by Amber Garza Vision by Julia Gfrörer Final Cut: A Novel by S. 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This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Parakeet, You Should See Me in a Crown, The Vanishing Half, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift; Ritual; and Best Fiends. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Parakeet: A Novel by Marie-Helene Bertino You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett Again Again by E. Lockhart A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect by Wendy Williams #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE : The Fat Girl’s Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta WHAT WE’RE READING: Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: A Decent Family: A Novel by Rosa Ventrella, Ann Goldstein (translator) A Man by Keiichiro Hirano, Eli K.P. William (translator) Kissing Lessons by Sophie Jordan If We Were Us by K.L. Walther The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska Ghostlove by Dennis Mahoney Gravity is Heartless: The Heartless Series, Book One by Sarah Lahey The Guest List: A Novel by Lucy Foley Vagablonde by Anna Dorn Muddy Matterhorn by Heather McHugh Sara and the Search for Normal by Wesley King Dancing After TEN by Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber Melvile: A Graphic Novel by Romain Renard Renard They Did Bad Things: A Thriller by Lauren A. Forry The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf, Frank Wynne (translator) Windows On The World by Robert Mailer Anderson, Jon Sack, Zack Anderson Empress of Flames by Mimi Yu Lady Chevy: A Novel by John Woods Running from the Dead: A Crime Novel by Mike Knowles Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths Book 2) by Stephen Fry All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective by Lenard D. Moore My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine by Richard Humphreys Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love by E. Dolores Johnson Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson, Leila Del Duca (Illustrator) The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, Richard Dixon (translator) A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko, Philip Boehm (translator) The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster Song of the Sandman by JF Dubeau Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America by Stephen L. Klineberg Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin by Howard Blum An Elegant Woman: A Novel by Martha McPhee Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas A. Basbanes Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman The Hero of Numbani (Overwatch #1) by Nicky Drayden Star Wars Queen’s Peril by E. K. Johnston The Voyage of the Morning Light: A Novel by Marina Endicott Conventionally Yours (True Colors) by Annabeth Albert Jo & Laurie by Melissa de la Cruz, Margaret Stohl Elly by Maike Wetzel, Lyn Marven (Translator) The Summer of Kim Novak by Haakan Nesser, Saskia Vogel (Translator) On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins by Mark Hallett and John M. 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Brown Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays by Alexandra Petri Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum by Joe Meno Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha, Larissa Helena (Translator) The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini The Second Home by Christina Clancy The School for Good and Evil: One True King by Soman Chainani Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, Samuel Rutter (translator) The Day I Was Erased by Lisa Thompson The Way to Rio Luna by Zoraida Cordova The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore Asha and the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon Burn by Patrick Ness Ornamental by Juan Cárdenas, Lizzie Davis (translator) The View from Here: A Novel by Hannah McKinnon Her Perfect Life by Rebecca Taylor My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand Happily Ever After & Everything In Between by Debbie Tung The Summer Deal: A Novel by Jill Shalvis Donut the Destroyer by Sarah Graley, Stef Purenins You Don’t Live Here by Robyn Schneider The Obsidian Tower (The Gate of Secrets) by Melissa Caruso The Choice by Gillian McAllister More Miracle Than Bird by Alice Miller Ask Me Anything  by P.Z. Reizin Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew Who Killed Berta Caceres? The Murder of an Indigenous Defender and the Race to Save the Planet by Nina Lakhani Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See (Teenage Trailblazers, STEM Building Projects for Girls) by Emily Pilloton A Long Night in Paris by Dov Alfon How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena by Paul Sutter PhD A Decade of Disruption: America in the New Millennium by Garrett Peck

Han Nguyen has come back from her yearlong teaching adventure in regional Japan in Yamaguchi prefecture, in a city called Mine. She shares her experiences and advice for others who are considering living and working overseas, away from the comfort of home. Han talks about her many passions including teaching English to young children and to asylum seekers in Australia. She also shares with us her favourite Beat poem from the 50s, from Howl by Allen Ginsberg. And reads a personal review of a famous book called My Brilliant Friend written in Italian by Elena Ferrante, and translated by Ann Goldstein. To follow Han's adventures, find her on Instagram at Hanwithahat.

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy Pub with author and publisher Jon Sealy. After we talk about the state of publishing and Jon's current projects, we also discuss books we've read and liked recently. Some books are just better in audio, some are necessarily dark, while others clear away the gloom.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 169: Simulacrum with Jon SealySubscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify Books discussed: The Overstory by Richard PowersThe Circle of Karma by Kunzang ChodenFaithful Place by Tana FrenchThe Line Becomes a River by Francisco CantúThe Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann GoldsteinThe Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa, translated by David Karashima Other mentions:Jenny's trip to the South Carolina Book Festival in 2014 (where she saw Jon Sealy talk about his book right before a panel of Pat Conroy's siblings)The Whiskey Baron by Jon SealyHub City PressEureka Mill by Ron RashLike a Family by Jacquelyne Dowd Hall et alFate Moreland's Widow by John LaneThe Last Ballad by Wiley CashThe Edge of America by Jon SealyHaywire BooksHummingbird House by Patricia HenleyFirebird by Mark PowellSmall Treasons by Mark PowellThe Good Luck Stone by Heather Bell Adams The Echo Maker by Richard PowersOrfeo by Richard PowersIn the Woods by Tana FrenchThe Witch Elm by Tana FrenchMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Neopolitan Novels #1)Chocolat by Joanne HarrisTiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown by Larry Brown (forthcoming)All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi CoatesRelated Episodes:Episode 012 - Some Bookers and Some Madness Episode 024 - The Attention of Humanity with guests Seth Wilson and Barret Newman  Episode 130 - All the Jennifers with Fern RonayEpisode 167 - Book Pendulum with ReggieStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and LitsyJon on TwitterJon on Facebook Jon's website with tour infoHaywire Books websiteHaywire Books on FacebookSome of these links are Amazon affiliate links, where I do get a minor kickback when people click on them. But many of the links on today's post link to the small presses publishing the books, and although I receive no kickback on those links, I would love for you to support those publishers and writers.

Anna and Annie discuss Women in Translation Month, started by Meytal Radzinski and now a global event (yes, it was in August but we're celebrating it year-round ;) ). In keeping with our theme, Elena Ferrante has a new book coming out in November, translated by Ann Goldstein.  Our book of the week is Our Life in the Forest by Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Penny Hueston.  Darrieussecq is hugely successful in France and we can see why.  We loved this short novel set in the near future, with a funny, blunt narrator, spare writing and much to think about.  Recommended!   Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading The Pillars by Peter Polites. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras , @mr_annie , @readwit Twitter: @abailliekaras , @mister_annie , @bibliobio , @read_WIT Litsy: @abailliekaras , @mr_annie

Simon and Eleanor speak to Ann Goldstein, who translated Elena Ferrante's phenomenally successful Neapolitan novels (My Brilliant Friend and its three sequels) out of Italian and into English. Ann also had a long and distinguished career as an editor at the New Yorker, where she rose to become head of the copy department. Ann spoke about the process of literary translation, the challenges of working with a writer whose identity she did not know, and also how the world of magazines has changed since she began her working life in the 1970s. You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways, and on Facebook at facebook.com/alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Eleanor Halls and Simon Akam, and produced by Nicola Kean. Zahra Hankir is our communities editor. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Bangkok Wakes to Rain, The White Book, The Study of Animal Languages, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Audible and Blinkist. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray The Source of Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel by Lindsay Stern The White Book by Han Kang Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage by Fabien Grolleau and Jéremie Royer Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig The City In the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders What we're reading: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker More books out this week: Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu Trump Sky Alpha: A Novel by Mark Doten Nobody's Looking at You: Essays by Janet Malcolm For the Killing of Kings (The Ring-Sworn Trilogy) by Howard Andrew Jones Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos The Moon Sister: A Novel (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley The (Half) Truth by Leddy Harper Letter to Survivors by Gebe and Edward Gauvin The Elegant Lie by Sam Eastland The Familiars: A Novel by Stacey Halls Aerialists: Stories by Mark Mayer Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire by Elaine Shannon  Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik The Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab by Agustín Fernández Mallo, Thomas Bunstead (Translator) Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism New Edition by Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman Arturo's Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante, Ann Goldstein (translator) How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr Tarot by Marissa Kennerson The Afterward by E.K. Johnston The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason The Secrets of Clouds by Alyson Richman The Next to Die: A Novel by Sophie Hannah The Birds That Stay by Ann Lambert The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Immoral Code by Lillian Clark American Heroin by Melissa Scrivner Love Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe by Bob Berman Chamber Music: Wu-Tang and America (in 36 Pieces) by Will Ashon Death in Provence: A Novel by Serena Kent The Vanishing Man: A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series by Charles Finch The Stranger from the Sea: A Novel by Paul Binding Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce Where Oblivion Lives (Los Nefilim Book 1) by T. Frohock

This week we’re talking about the Neapolitan novels, by Elena Ferrante. An adaptation of the first book in that series, My Brilliant Friend, is coming to HBO later this month... and we’re using that as an excuse to revisit Ferrante's world. With Ruth Spencer, Ann Goldstein, Samhita Chakraborty, Aminatou Sow, Danielle Oteri, and Dayna Tortorici. Recommendations from our guests: Ruth Spencer: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Aminatou Sow: Sula by Toni Morrison Samhita Chakraborty: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Danielle Oteri: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith Ann Goldstein: Neapolitan Chronicles by Anna Maria Ortese; History: A Novel by Elsa Morante Dayna Tortorici: Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante; Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Much of the content in the 24th issue of the nonprofit arts annual ESOPUS concerns itself with boundaries—between countries, cultures, languages, genders, and more—and in many cases, with using creativity as a way to breach them. This podcast features editor Tod Lippy's interviews with four contributors to the issue—translator Ann Goldstein, photographer and activist Clayton Patterson, and artists Hayden Dunham and Marco Maggi—and also includes clips from 5 songs from the ESOPUS 24 CD, "Pioneer Sessions," comprising 12 songs created in the recording studio of the Brooklyn nonprofit Pioneer Works. Learn more about the issue at http://www.esopus.org/issues/view/24

March 8, 2017 at the Boston Athenæum. Join Ann Goldstein—translator of works by Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alessandro Baricco—for a lecture on the art and craft of translation, with examples from the broad range of works she has translated from Italian. Goldstein will offer audience members a peek into the complex considerations of translators with an analysis of two translated sentences from Primo Levi's The Truce.

Should you feed a cold and starve a fever? We’ll see what the science says, with Ruslan Medzhitov, Cell (00:00). Also, just in time for Oktoberfest: a look at the history of beer yeast, with Kevin Verstrepen, Cell (6:15). Finally, a STAR is born as Cell Press unveils a new approach to the methods section. Find out what’s changing, and how it’s designed to help you, with Ann Goldstein (13:10).

Ann Goldstein is the chief copy editor at The New Yorker. But in her spare time, she translates some of the planet's most popular books from Italian into English - the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante. We talk to her about translation and the enigma that is Ferrante. #writing #translation #podcast

Who is the Neapolitan novelist writing as Elena Ferrante? The world doesn’t know, yet the world has taken notice of such books as The Days of Abandonment and The Story of the Lost Child, the final story of her (or his?) Neapolitan quartet, which place Naples at the center of the universe. Ferrante’s translator Ann Goldstein and publisher Kent Carroll join The Graduate Center’s Giancarlo Lombardi and Bettina Lerner at Proshansky Auditorium to talk about Ferrante’s work, which one critic calls a social tapestry with an underlying feminist sensibility that explores the struggles and contradictions faced by women in the latter part of the 20th Century.

Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with translator Ann Goldstein; John Freeman on Annie Dillard; a poem by the late C.D. Wright; a reading by Melissa Broder from So Sad Today; and a performance by slam champion Ebony Stewart. Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast is a production of Poets & Writers, Inc., and is edited by Melissa Faliveno with assistance from Jonathan Walsh.

Elena Ferrante's translator, Ann Goldstein, was joined by Joanna Biggs, Lisa Appignanesi and Alex Clark to discuss the appeal and mystery of the enigmatic Italian author. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Anna K. as she interviews Ann Goldstein...Ann is a wife, mother, former corporate executive turned Holistic Lifestyle Coach, and founder of CRANN Enterprises and the charitable organization, Rich's Way.  As the founder of CRANN Coaching-Dawn the New You, she's successfully transitioned from trading time for money as a corporate executive, to a richly rewarding career as a wellness entrepreneur.  She took a leap of faith, decided to follow her passion, and pursued a life that has proven to be deeply and richly rewarding.  Paulo Coelho said: “When you really want something, the whole universe conspires to help you achieve it.”  This was true for her and it has proven true for her clients!  We are all powerful beings, with the innate ability to transform ourselves mentally, spiritually, and physically, from the inside out.  I'm here as a guide to create pathways to wellness.  Take the first step towards dawning the new you. Schedule your free breakthrough session with Ann today at cranncoaching.com

Het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam gaat zondag weer open voor het publiek. In 2004 ging het museum dicht voor een grondige renovatie en uitbreiding. Catherine van Campen spreekt met Ann Goldstein, directeur van het Stedelijk, over het verleden en de toekomst van het museum. In 1975 verscheen het boekje Ger van Elk en zijn keuze uit het Stedelijk [...]