Taking Chances, Writing Outside Walls: Diverse Authors at the 2017 Brooklyn Book Festival
A report on two events on Children's Day at the 2017 Brooklyn Book Festival and thoughts on taking chances and writing outside one's comfort zone.
A Fable for Our Time: The Queen of the Frogs
Discussing a book I translated from Portuguese, The Queen of the Frogs, which since last November has become a timely story of democracy's erosion.
Good News for Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words!
I'm not one of those authors who goes around tooting my own horn. My grandmother taught me the value of modesty and warned me that "what goes up must come…
Little Brick Township now has a beach and coastline.
An Anniversary and What’s Coming Soon
Celebration of the blog's fourth anniversary with popular posts and an announcement of three forthcoming translations.
The 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival: Historical Fiction for Kids and the Value of Small Presses
A summary of the PEN "Won't Know Much About History" panel on children's historical fiction at the Brooklyn Book Festival and meeting small press YA publishers.
Original Sin
This is not what I wanted to return home to -- the images of two African-American men gunned down by white police officers in as many days. We protest the…
A Book Fair!
My day at the 86th Lisbon Book Fair, where I checked out Portugal's publishers and bought more books than I can carry home.
Meeting the Illustrators
I meet all three illustrators of books I've translated at the opening of an exhibit of works by the Brazilian-Portuguese artist Yara Kono.
November Is Writing Month: NaNoWriMo and PiBoIdMo
Why I'm taking part in PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month) this November.
The “Americanizer” and Other Tales of Translation
A report on the "PEN Presents: Translating Books for Young Readers" panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival.