New material on the website
“To Find a Dress” — This story began as Spanish class assignment to write about the saying, “El hábito no hace al monje,” or “Clothes don’t make the man.” On that same day, I read a Wall Street Journal article about the Washington, DC, Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run, and I decided that maybe you are what you wear. Published in 2003.
Amadis of Gaul, Chapter IX — An excerpt from a medieval novel that I translated. This is how people at the time imagined a dramatic, heroic joust.
“Dogs in Heaven” — Flash fiction with cute animals.
New in Articles:
The First Seven Chicons: A History of Ambition, Tradition, and Entertainment — Each year, the science fiction community organizes an event called a “worldcon.” The first one started sort of by accident. The second one, held in Chicago in 1940, made it into an annual event. This report was written for the Chicon 8 Souvenir Book.
Chicon 8: convention review — The 80th Worldcon went well, but times are changing.
Speculative Fiction: the future happens everywhere — Science fiction translators and some publishers want to make the genre reflect its world-wide authorship. This article was written for the Spring-Summer 2022 edition of The Source, the journal of the Literary Division of the American Translators Association.
Parallel Beauty — What set the standards for beautiful prose in English? The King James Bible, for one thing.
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Always interesting and enlightening to read your thoughts on the use of language and translation Sue.
Let me recommend the novel "Babel" as an interesting look at the use of language and translation in magic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Thanks for the recommendation Sue. I have added a Hold on Babel at my library and look forward to reading it. I also see that NetGalley UK have listed it as their Audiobook of the Year.
The book made a quite a few "best of" lists!
