Callahan on works in translation and DFW and Bernhard and making good art and stuff

The new Collagist issue that came out today features an alive and thoughtful essay by Jonathan Callahan, a writer whose work I've gotten to spend a little time with lately, doing some close readings that get at the ways technical skill serves emotional truth in fiction, reaffirming some things you really can't hear too many times.

Here's the second to last paragraph:

What I suppose I discovered in my recent reading of works in translation then is a kind of liberation: These books, in the form...