Matt Reeck earned a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA. He has been awarded grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the PEN/Heim Fund, and the NEA. Forthcoming translations include The Chronicle, from the Urdu of Intizar Husain (Penguin India) and French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony, from the French of Patrick Chamoiseau (Wesleyan University Press).
Matt Reeck
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Writing on Public Books
Translation’s Burden
A book is a strange vessel of expectation. A published book imagines a reader, for a published book without a reader is a book that loses someone’s money. And a book about translation seems to have the added burden of addressing a diffuse and eclectic reading community that may be united only by its shared […]
