Reading Log: Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Crossing’
Heavy book. I read the last 90 or so pages in a single sitting and after putting it down I felt like I was walking around in a fog, disassociated…
Reading Log: Gabriel García Márquez’s Of Love and Other Demons
Márquez himself needs no introduction, but his short novel Of Love and Other Demons had completely escaped my radar. My experience with Spanish-language magic realism had been limited to short…
Linguistics, Literature in Translation and my Attempt to Learn Spanish
I took two years of Spanish in high school, so I can speak it about as well as most Americans who took any foreign language for two years (somewhere between…