Aditi Machado, Asymptote poetry editor, saw her poems appear in the April issue of MiPOesias and the new issue of Transom. To read her poetry is a pleasure; to hear it a delight – so check out a video of her reading at Counterpath, Denver.
Asymptote’s chief executive assistant Berny Tan and Sher Chew launched Isle-to-Isle, a collaborative data visualization and experimental reading project based on Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island. Pictured above, it’s a yearlong project with weekly updates – an exciting endeavor that will ultimately become “a mammoth illustration of Verne’s adventure classic.”
Is foreignness an inherently fertile imaginative/observational state for you? contributor Brittani Sonnenberg asks in an interview-essay published in The Millions. Deeply related to notions of diaspora raised in Asymptote’s April 2014 issue, the interview is in depth and worth reading. To her question, past contributor Jeremy Tiang answers that he thrives on dislocation, so maybe now is the time to take that trip you’ve been putting off (it’s for your writing, after all).
The Kilroys, a group of playwrights and producers in Los Angeles focused on gender parity in American theater, nominated Archipelago, a play by Asymptote drama editor Caridad Svich, to their list of excellent new work written by women.
Interviews editor Matthew Jakubowski’s “Honest work: an experimental review of an experimental translation” (3:AM Magazine) took the 3rd prize, or “charm quark,” in a 3 Quarks Daily contest. Judge Mohsin Hamid described the work as “magical and wise,” reminiscent of Nabokov’s classic Pale Fire. So for all you Charles Kinbote enthusiasts, carve out some time in your reading schedule for this forthright tale about the woes of book reviewing.
Although a generation and an ocean separated us, we would both later admit to feeling as if the other was a long-lost brother, bound not by blood but by aesthetic sensibility. Frequent contributor Reif Larsen in the Guardian discussed Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s upcoming film adaptation of his book. Watch the trailer for a preview of what’s to come June 13, when The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet, starring Helena Bonham Carter, is released.
And a warm congratulations to…
Amanda Lee Koe and Zhang Yueran, longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; and Vasily Grossman, Elizabeth and Robert Chandler, and Michael Hofmann, shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. The PEN prize is awarded for a 2013 book-length translation of prose into English.