I was on Translation Chat, Jenn O’Donnell’s new podcast about translations! Check out the podcast here. This was so much fun. We talked about Alfred Birnbaum and Elmer Luke’s 1991 translation of Haruki Murakami’s 1985 “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End … Continue reading →
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