An excerpt from poetry editor Aditi Machado‘s translation of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia recently appeared in World Literature Today. The entire work is forthcoming from Action Books in 2016.

Over at his blog, contributing editor Adrian West joins Michael Orthofer in bemoaning the relative obscurity into which German writer Peter Weiss has fallen and argues that Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance might be the most radical novel of the twentieth century.

Drama editor Caridad Svich will be giving a talk entitled “Staging Place: Theatrical Crossings in Translation and Adaptation” at Mary Baldwin College’s Francis Auditorium at 7 PM on Sep 21.

Commissioning editor J.S. Tennant translated Enrique Vila-Matas’s “Writers from the Old Days” for The White Review recently.

Assistant editor Kara Billey Thordarson (K.T. Billey) had poems appear in Cosmonauts Avenue and Prelude. In August, she was named a finalist for the 2015 Pamet Prize from YesYes Books. Kara also read for Columbia University’s Studio A Arts radio show recently, sharing poems and talking philosophy of language, logic, and gender. READ MORE…

Contributing editor Aamer Hussein was interviewed by Kindle Magazine about his latest short story collection, 37 Bridges.

Poetry editor Aditi Machado‘s translation of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia has been accepted by Action Books for publication in Fall 2016.

Contributing editor Antony Shugaar has not one but two translations scheduled for publication in August: Nobel laureate Dario Fo’s The Pope’s Daughter (Europa Editions) and Fausto Brizzi’s 100 Days of Happiness: A Novel (Penguin Random House).

Over at his blog, contributing editor Adrian West weighs in on Rainald Goetz winning the Büchner Prize 2015—a controversial choice—and makes a case for Goetz’s relevance.

Drama editor Caridad Svich was interviewed by Philadelphia Magazine on the dismaying lack of female-written works in theater. READ MORE…

Contributing editor Antony Shugaar‘s translation of Massimo Carlotto’s Gang of Lovers was published by Europa Editions on 2 June 2015.

Assistant editor Bradley Schmidt recently had a translation of Florian Wacker’s piece “Transit” published in Exchanges Literary Journal.

Drama editor Caridad Svich has edited a new book for TCG with the title INNOVATION IN FIVE ACTS. The book just launched at their national conference in Cleveland June 18-20, 2015, and is now available on amazon for pre-order.

Senior editor (Chinese) Chenxin Jiang‘s translation of Xiao Bai’s acclaimed literary noir French Concession is published by HarperCollins in the US this month. Furthermore, an excerpt from Chenxin’s forthcoming translation of Swiss author Zsuzsanna Gahse’s novel Volatile Texts was featured on the Three Percent blog.

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