Tag Archives: Rachel Cusk

Translating “Raymond Carver”

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Ellen Akins

So peculiar: Upon reading Rachel Cusk’s piece about parenting in the New York Times Magazine (no, the piece, not the parenting, was in the magazine) and encountering this: Raymond Carver’s disturbing poem, “On an Old Photograph of My Son,” an outpouring … Continue reading →

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Books This Week: Egan, Trapido, Kneale, Brenna

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Ellen Akins

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Because I listened to it on CD and needed to read it, and to have it–and of course I’d missed the graphic business in it, power point presentations and so forth. … Continue reading →

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Translating “Raymond Carver”

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