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 ...

Matt Reeck
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).