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If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents: A Memoir

10 best books like If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents: A Memoir (Gregory Rabassa): Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft, Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons, Textermination: A Novel, The Ghosts of Birds, The Strange Case of Rachel K, Five Novels, Vite congetturali, Tyrant Memory, Kassel no invita a la lógica, Debths

Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN1582973857
Are you a writer longing to rediscover the joy that you once had in the craft (or even find it for the first time)? In this inspiring guide, Jane Yolen, an author who has been called America's Hans Christian Andersen, shows writers how to focus on aspects of the craft that bring them joy. She remarks in the...
Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons
AuthorSerita Stevens
ISBN0898793718
I've carted this reference book to each of the dozen or so places I've lived since college, and I've only used it a few times, but it's one of those books that is so well done that I can't let it go. You can look up poisons by reaction time, symptoms, foods that disguise them, and many other characteristics...
Textermination: A Novel
AuthorChristine Brooke-Rose
ISBN0811212165
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...
The Ghosts of Birds
AuthorEliot Weinberger
ISBN0811226182
The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into “a vortex for the entire universe” (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey...
The Strange Case of Rachel K
AuthorRachel Kushner
Three early stories about myth, power, and sex by the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers.

An explorer’s unknown whereabouts keep a queen in anticipation; a faith healer’s illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a president’s offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute...
Five Novels
AuthorRonald Firbank
ISBN0811207994
"Just because I want so much, it's extraordinary how little
I require," says a player in Firbank's fantasia, "Valmouth,"
wherein the bedizened denizens at a UK spa pleasure themselves
with misalliances and infatuations. Capt. Dick Thoroughfare,
heir to Hare-Hatch House, doesn't...
Vite congetturali
AuthorFleur Jaeggy
ISBN8845923789
This superbly concentrated book of creative nonfiction should not be knocked back like a shot, but rather sipped slowly like a good grappa. It consists of three hyper-brief biographies of writers: De Quincey, Keats, and Marcel Schwob. The lives herein are, as the original title has it, ‘congetturali’,...
Tyrant Memory
AuthorHoracio Castellanos Moya
ISBN0811219178
Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted...
Kassel no invita a la lógica
AuthorEnrique Vila-Matas
Una extraña llamada interrumpe la rutina de un escritor. La enigmática voz femenina al otro lado de la línea le dice que los McGuffin quieren invitarlo a cenar para desvelarle la solución al misterio del universo. Pronto descubrirá que se trata de una convocatoria para participar en la Documenta...
Debths
AuthorSusan Howe
ISBN0811226859
A collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths’ inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also addresses memory’s threads and galaxies,...
Why Translation Matters
AuthorEdith Grossman
ISBN0300126565
Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator’s role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, “My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published
AuthorSheree Bykofsky
ISBN1615641270
As an aspiring novelist, this book didn't do much for me. I could tell by the second chapter that it was really more oriented toward the non-fiction book writer. Example: I skipped chapters 7 and 8 all together because they specifically had the word "Nonfiction" in the chapter heading.

That...
The Way to Write for Children: An Introduction to the Craft of Writing Children's Literature
AuthorJoan Aiken
In addressing "the way to write for children," Joan Aiken starts at the beginning. Is writing a children's book as simple as it looks? Do you want to write for children or about them? Do you want to write a picture book for young children, a book for new readers, or a chapter book for preteens? Why is Beatrix...
Writers on Writing, Volume II: More Collected Essays from The New York Times
AuthorThe New York Times
ISBN0805075887
"Glimpses into writers and the circumstances that shape them . . . Valuable gleanings."-Kirkus Reviews

In a second volume of original essays drawn from the long-running New York Times column, Writers on Writing brings together another group of contemporary literature's finest voices...
Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet
AuthorIan F. McNeely
ISBN0393065065
Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question throughout:...
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation
AuthorLawrence Venuti
ISBN0415115388
The Translator's Invisibility traces the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day. It shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English, and investigates the cultural consequences of the domestic values...
How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript
AuthorJames N. Frey
ISBN0312304463
Edgar award nominee James N. Frey, author of the internationally best-selling books on the craft of writing, How to Write a Damn Good Novel, How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, and The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth, has now written what is certain to become...
Where Europe Begins
AuthorYōko Tawada
ISBN0811215156
Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fact and fiction, prose and poetry. Often...
Man, Oh Man! Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks & Cash
AuthorJosh Lanyon
ISBN1934531308
It can be more than just a dream... To write the kind of stories that you love to read - that's what you really want. If only you knew how to get started. *Help from someone who knows...* What you need is professional advice, help from someone who's been there, who can support you through the creative process,...
The Beetle Leg
AuthorJohn Hawkes
ISBN0811200620
It is a lawless country.

Reading John Hawke’s second novel, the purgatorial western The Beetle Leg, is like being a small child awake during the night, staring in horror at some formless dark beast of the imagination that lurks within the shadows of their room. The plot, notorious for its...
The Breakout Novelist: Craft and Strategies for Career Fiction Writers
AuthorDonald Maass
ISBN1582979901
The all-inclusive guide for novel writers

If you're serious about making your fiction vibrant, engaging, and marketable, you've found the right book. The Breakout Novelist gives you the craft and business know-how you need to make your book stand out.

Inside, veteran agent Donald...
Writing the Paranormal Novel: Techniques and Exercises for Weaving Supernatural Elements Into Your Story.
AuthorSteven Harper
ISBN1599633019
Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, oh my! Writing a paranormal novel takes more than casting an alluring vampire or arming your hero with a magic wand. It takes an original idea, believable characters, a compelling plot, and surprising twists, not to mention great writing.

This helpful...
How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
AuthorPat Schneider
ISBN0199933960
"When I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait." With that insight, Pat Schneider invites readers to contemplate their lives and deepest questions through writing. In seventeen concise thematic chapters that include meditations...
Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer
AuthorJeff VanderMeer
ISBN1892391902
The world has changed, and with it the craft of writing. In addition to the difficulties of putting pen to paper, authors must now contend with a slew of new media. This has forever altered the relationship between writers and their readers, their publishers, and their work. In an era when authors are...
How German Is It (Wie Deutsch ist es)
AuthorWalter Abish
ISBN0811207765
The question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish's novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the patrimony of the saber and the castle on the Rhine, give way to the present, indiscriminate fascination...
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